Any Cyrus-imap help gratefully received


Hi, all.

This may be a bit 'noob' for some of you, but I have begun to despair.

I have had a cyrus imap server running quite nicely, but have managed
to screw up the config and am stuck in a hole. Fetchmail and postfix
are working, I think, but the glue between them has become unstuck.

imtest shows that I cannot authenticate any connection, except for user
root.

imtest -u hugh localhost
S: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID STARTTLS]
Zen.37ChapelLane Cyrus IMAP4 v2.3.7-Invoca-RPM-2.3.7-4.fc6 server ready
C: C01 CAPABILITY
S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID STARTTLS ACL RIGHTS=kxte
QUOTA MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT
CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND BINARY SORT SORT=MODSEQ THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT
THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE CATENATE CONDSTORE IDLE LISTEXT
LIST-SUBSCRIBED X-NETSCAPE URLAUTH
S: C01 OK Completed
Please enter your password:
C: L01 LOGIN root {8}
S: + go ahead
C: <omitted>
S: L01 NO Login failed: authentication failure
Authentication failed. generic failure
Security strength factor: 0
logout
* BYE LOGOUT received
OK Completed
Connection closed.


pam is my mech of choice, and I am reasonably confident that is working
ok, as i have Samba running.

Any thoughts please ? What do I need to check.

I could weep.


--
Hugh Jones
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