FW: [Kroupware] Problems starting up Kolab -- "could not auth. with Cyrus IMAPdaemon" -- Additions.

[Alon Weinstein]

Sorry for reposting -- maybe someone has any idea what could cause this
error message from Cyrus?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alon Weinstein [mailto:alon at sreu.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 12:47 AM
> To: alon at sreu.com; Kolab Server and KDE Client development issues
> Subject: [Kroupware] Problems starting up Kolab -- "could not auth. with
> Cyrus IMAPdaemon" -- Additions.
>
>
> I've done some more testing. I tried manually login is as
> 'manager' using cyradm (I started the Kolab Cyrus IMAP manually)
> and issued cyradm --user=manager localhost) with the password
> specified by 'bind_pw' in the Kolab config. files (which is the
> one I issued during installation, with no success.
> When I write any password in the 'Password:' & 'IMAP Password:'
> prompts I get:
> "LOGIN failed at
> /kolab/lib/perl/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm l
> ine 118
> cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with  as manager"
>
> When I write a blank-password I get only the error message from
> cyradm, presumably because blank passwords aren't accepted.
>
> After some research, I've tried resetting the 'manager' user
> password using /kolab/sbin/saslpasswd2, but that didn't change anything.
>
> Any ideas anyone?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: kroupware-bounces-+alon=sreu.com at mail.kde.org
> > [mailto:kroupware-bounces-+alon=sreu.com at mail.kde.org]On Behalf Of Alon
> > Weinstein
> > Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 8:38 PM
> > To: kroupware at mail.kde.org
> > Subject: [Kroupware] Problems starting up Kolab -- "could not auth. with
> > Cyrus IMAPdaemon"
> >
> >
> > Hello all.
> >
> > I've installed the Kolab 1.0 from source (using the most helpfull
> > QIM) on my
> > RH9 system. Compilation & installation went smoothly. However,
> > when I start
> > Kolab using the Sys-V script I get the following output:
> >
> > [root at jack root]# /etc/init.d/kolab start
> > starting openldap ...
> > starting sasl ...
> > starting cyrus imapd ...
> > starting apache ...
> > [Sat Aug  9 20:26:21 2003] [alert] apache: Could not determine
> > the server's
> > full
> > y qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
> > /kolab/sbin/apachectl start: httpd started
> > starting postfix ...
> > postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
> > starting kolab backend (please wait)...
> > [root at jack root]# LOGIN failed at
> > /kolab/lib/perl/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/Cyr
> > us/IMAP/Admin.pm line 118
> > could not authenticate with Cyrus IMAP daemon () at
> /kolab/etc/kolab/kolab
> > line
> > 439.
> >
> > Upto "startin kolab backend" everything's OK -- the system
> returns to the
> > shell (as you can see) and a few moments later shows up the error
> > "failed at
> > /kolab/lib/perl/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/Cyr
> > us/IMAP/Admin.pm line 118
> > could not authenticate with Cyrus IMAP daemon () at
> /kolab/etc/kolab/kolab
> > line
> > 439."
> >
> > I looked at the problemaic line in /kolab/etc/kolab/kolab, and
> > while I don't
> > speak Perl, I gather the problem is either that there's no user named
> > 'manager' on Cyrus or that its password is not the stored in
> the variable
> > (hashtable?) configdata('bind_pw').
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Alon Weinstein
> >
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