Re: ldapdb troubleshooting

[Igor Brezac <igor@ipass.net>]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Howard Chu wrote:

> Dr. Lars Hanke wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > well, I compiled the ldapdb auxprop in order to have a couple of services 
> > to authenticate with the LDAP repository. I started with imap and 
> > immediately ran into trouble. This is what imtest wrote to auth.log:
> >
> > Mar 13 17:57:28 localhost saslpasswd2: _sasl_plugin_load failed on 
> > sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: ldapdb
> > Mar 13 17:57:28 localhost saslpasswd2: auxpropfunc error invalid parameter 
> > supplied
> >
> > What does this want to tell me? Is there a resonable approach to set up a 
> > test suite?
> >
> > Some details about the configuration:
> >
> > I put up a config: cat /usr/lib/sasl2/imapd.conf
> > pwcheck_method: auxprop
> > auxprop_plugin: ldapdb
> > ldapdb_uri: ldaps://adept.mgr
> > ldapdb_id: mailadmin
> > ldapdb_pw: ********
> > ldapdb_mech: DIGEST-MD5
> > However, slapd does not report anythig, i.e. the error occurs before LDAP 
> > is contacted.
> I vaguely recall that Cyrus imapd is weird in its config file parsing. Try 
> prefixing the ldapdb directives with "sasl_". Sorry I don't remember enough 
> of the details to be clearer.

He needs to rename this file to Cyrus.conf or place these directives with 
prefixed "sasl_" into the cyrus-imapd config file (usually 
/etc/imapd.conf).

--
Igor