[Techtalk] ldap/cyrus

[Maria McKinley]

On 9/23/07, Maria McKinley <maria at shadlen.org> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I just switched to a new ldap server, and have managed to get quite a
> bit working with the new ldap server, but can't get mail login
> working. Unfortunately, this means I can't read the mailing list, so
> please send replies to my gmail account: monstermama at gmail.com. I
> have other things on the mail server working with ldap, so it isn't
> the connection to the ldap server. I think I have properly updated the
> certificates (certainly the ldap ones are working). The log says it is
> a problem with pam:
>
> Sep 23 01:13:37 ella saslauthd[22677]: (pam_unix) authentication
> failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=  user=maria
> Sep 23 01:13:37 ella saslauthd[22677]: do_auth         : auth failure:
> [user=maria] [service=imap] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM acct
> error]
>
> Sep 23 01:13:37 ella cyrus/imapd[22905]: badlogin: [128.208.108.78]
> plaintext maria SASL(-13): authentication failure: checkpass failed
> Sep 23 01:14:35 ella cyrus/master[22783]: process 22948 exited, status 0
>
> I've made sure all these configs: libnss-ldap.ldap, pam_ldap.conf have
> the correct ip.
>
> Any ideas what else to check?
>
> thanks,
> maria
>

A little too quick to say it was solved. I think it may have been a
weirdness of being behind the firewall, but not sure. Pretty strange.
I am able to use the smtp server (which also checks ldap), and it was
after using smtp that I was able to see my email messages, although it
still told me login failed.

from a very confused,
maria

~maria