From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 12 05:39:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 009E716A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 05:39:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web13605.mail.yahoo.com (web13605.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB89143D1D for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 05:39:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sub_kumaran@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040612053817.5322.qmail@web13605.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [137.226.141.166] by web13605.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:38:17 CST Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:38:17 +0800 (CST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Subramanian=20Kumaran?= To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Err - saslpasswd2: Couldn't update db + authentication failed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 05:39:51 -0000 Hi, I am trying to install Postfix+Cyrus-IMAP+Cyrus-SASL-authd on FreeBSD system. I've installed all these s/w ... but I face some problems 1) #saslpasswd2 username #setpass succeeded for cyrus #saslpasswd2 : Couldn't update db (<== ????) but I can create a new user option "-c" and also I can delete user with option "-d" but receiving the same error msg (saslpasswd2 : Couldn't update db) 2) #cyradm --user cyrus localhost #IMAP Password: *** Login failed: auththendication failure at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm line 118 cyradm: can't authenticate to server with as cyrus (But actually the sasld successfully authendicate the request and logs in the database-mail, table-log) 3)SMTP #telnet localhost smtp # .... # ... #QUIT everything went fine ...but later the I found these messages in the log file ***************** postfix/pipe: fatal: user= command-line attribute specifies mail system owner postfix group id mail ***************** settings in master.cf are ... old-cyrus unix - n n - - pipe flags= user=cyrus argv=/usr/local/cyrus/bin/deliver -r ${sender} -m ${extension} ${user} cyrus unix - n n - - pipe flags= user=cyrus argv=/usr/local/cyrus/bin/deliver -r ${sender} -m ${extension} ${user} ***************** ------ I have set the following options in the imapd.conf file. pwcheck_method: saslauthd sasl_mech_list: plain (*) ------ Used the ports colection to install all the s/w, updated ports using "CVSup", upgraded all installed s/w using "portupgrade". ------ Created a symlink ln -s /usr/local/lib/sasl /usr/lib/sasl (**) ------ Is there anyone to help me out? If someone of u experienced same problems and solved somehow please help me to solve these problems. Thanks Kumaran __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Download the latest ringtones, games, and more! http://sg.mobile.yahoo.com