From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 23 12:42:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17623 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:42:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from modgud.nordicdms.com (h21-168-107.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.107] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA17572 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:42:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walton@nordicdms.com) Received: (qmail 5514 invoked by alias); 23 Jul 1998 19:42:18 -0000 Message-ID: <19980723194218.5512.qmail@modgud.nordicdms.com> Received: (qmail 5500 invoked from network); 23 Jul 1998 19:42:17 -0000 Received: from mail-ftp.nordicdms.com (HELO mail-ftp) (207.21.168.100) by mail.nordicdms.com with SMTP; 23 Jul 1998 19:42:17 -0000 From: "Dave Walton" Organization: Nordic Entertainment Worldwide To: "Patrik Astrom" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:42:17 -800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Cyrus trouble ! Reply-to: walton@nordicdms.com In-reply-to: <000001bdb656$b8eca0c0$21df7383@100377> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23 Jul 98 at 18:26, Patrik Astrom wrote: > Hi IM trying to install the Cyrus package > > But IM not able to connect with the cyradm program,it gives this error > message... > "application-specific initialization failed: authentication failed" > > Here is a part of my logfile... > > Jul 23 18:17:40 spaceman imapd[22869]: badlogin: localhost[127.0.0.1] > plaintext theguy cannot connect to pwcheck server > It looks to me like you don't have pwcheck running. Cyrus uses pwcheck to do its authentication, so without it running cyradm will fail with that error. Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Nordic Entertainment Worldwide walton@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message