cyradm

[Daryl Field]

I'm having a little trouble with the cyradm tool, firstly I'd like to point out that I'm only running Cyrus in a lab & am not that familiar at this point.

I'm authenticating using saslauthd -a pam, everything is working fine from an imap perspective, only imaps, using local acccounts, it's running on Redhat. Only issue is the cyradm tool won't connect to the local server.
I've tried, using the --auth switch with a whole load of permutations, unix,plain,pam,saslauth, tha man pages lists --auth[mechanism] without specifying the mechs explicitly.

My account is listed as an admin in /etc/imap.conf, put an entry in /etc/saslauthdb2 just in case, but am still having difficulties.

A quick rundown of how & what against this tool auths against would be most helpfull.

Thanks up front & apologies if this question's a little low-brow.

Daryl