[Web-cyradm] Problems setting up user cyrus.

[Daniel Widmer]

Am Don, 2002-11-14 um 15.29 schrieb Langa Kentane:
> Greetings,
> I am trying to setup a mail server using the howto written by Luc.
> 
> At the testing phase, I used the following command to set the cyrus-sasl
> password for user cyrus: "saslpasswd2 -c cyrus", this command goes thru with
> no problems. When I try the next one: "cyradm --user cyrus --server
> localhost --auth plain", I get the error: "Login failed: authentication
> failure at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm
> line 114
> cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with plain as cyrus"
> 
> As a result my imapd currently is not authenticating users, I get some
> password error in /var/log/messages. Does anyone have any idea how I could
> fix this? I tried uninstalling, removing all old cyrus configs and
> re-installing to no avail. Any ideas what the problem might be?
> 
Hello,
I think the problem can you fix with=>

cd /usr/local/sbin/cyrus-imapd-2.1.9/perl/imap/
(source path from cyrus-imap)

   perl Makefile.PL 
   make 
   make install 


Best regards