cyrus authentication problem

[Alain Spineux]

Try to login using "joydeep at linux" and not "joydeep"



On 2/21/07, JOYDEEP <j.bakshi at unlimitedmail.org> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> this is a general cyrus-imap problem which I am facing in my suse 10.1.
> and I'm not using LDAP
>
> the cyrus-imap admin user is cyrus and password --->  secret
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> # cat /etc/passwd | grep cyrus
>
> cyrus:x:96:12:User for cyrus-imapd:/usr/lib/cyrus:/bin/bash
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I hv no problem to log into cyradm like   * cyradm -u cyrus localhost*
>
> now I hv created an user joydeep with  *saslpasswd2 -c joydeep*
>
> but this time   * cyradm -u joydeep  localhost* is not working and it
> throws an error like
>
> Login failed: authentication failure at
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm
> line 118
> cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with  as joydeep
>
> though the existance of the user joydeep is been confirmed by
>
> # sasldblistusers2
>
> joydeep at linux: userPassword
>
> the hostname of this machine is linux.
>
> could any one kindly suggest ?
> thanks
>
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