Have you running the saslauthd daemon with sasldb mech? Some thing like this in your cyrus´s init file.
/path/to/saslauthd -a sasldb & Regards Danny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Krishna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 6:54 PM Subject: Authenticating Mail Users > Hi, > I am using Horde/IMP on RedHat 7.3 with Cyrus IMAP. I am having > problems authenticatin users. I folowed the Cyrus howto and added users. > > The problem is that it is authenticating users from the /etc/passwd and > shadow file and not from sasldb and mails go to the Cyrus Imap mail > directories, which works ok. > With this method I have to create the user both from cyradm and useradd. > I want to get users authenticated from the sasldb file and not /etc/passwd > and shadow. > > This is what my imapd.conf shows > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# cat /etc/imapd.conf > configdirectory: /var/lib/imap > partition-default: /var/spool/imap > admins: cyrus > allowanonymouslogin: no > sieveuserhomedir: no > sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve > sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail > hashimapspool: true > sasl_sasldb_path: /etc/sasldb > sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd > sasl_mech_list: PLAIN > tls_cert_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem > tls_key_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# > > regards > Krishna > http://www.KrisinDigitalAge.com > > >