> Am Mi, den 22.06.2005 schrieb Vijay Kumar um 17:23: > >> I am running cyrus-imapd-2.2.10 on RHEL 4 system. > > Update to the current update version of that package! > >> We have created a user test with passwd test and we want to this user >> to receive email. >> >> When we do a ´telnet <ip> 110 and then give the USER and PASS commands >> , we are notable to login using the user id and passwd. Error given is >> : -[ERR] AUTH Invalid Login. >> >> >> >> The logs show an error ´unknown password identifier¡ >> >> >> >> Hereÿs the imapd.conf file : >> >> >> >> configdirectory: /var/lib/imap >> >> partition-default: /var/spool/imap >> >> admins: cyrus root >> >> sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve >> >> sendmail: /opt/postfix/sbin/sendmail >> >> hashimapspool: true >> >> sasl_pwcheck_method:passwd > > False, change that to "saslauthd"
At least 'shadow' which was also tried should work without saslauthd being involved. I got the impression that the real problem is SELinux here. Can you try sasl_pwcheck_method: shadow again, disable SELinux, reboot, and test again? Simon > > >> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN >> >> tls_cert_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem >> >> tls_key_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem >> >> tls_ca_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt >> >> >> >> I have tried replacing the sasl_pwcheck_method with shadow and unix >> keywords. >> >> >> >> How can we configure support for /etc/passwd file, so that the same >> can be checked ? > > Do above change and make sure saslauthd is running: service saslauthd > start; chkconfig saslauthd on. saslauthd is configured through > /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd. > >> Do we need to create Maildir in every users home directory ? > > No, Cyrus-IMAPd has his own central mail storage. > >> Vijay. > > Alexander > > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 > legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html > Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.27_FC2smp > Serendipity 17:48:06 up 1 day, 2:02, load average: 0.56, 0.66, 0.63 > > --- > Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > > --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
