From info-cyrus  Wed Oct 23 00:47:45 2002
From: Michael Fair <michael () daclubhouse ! net>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 00:47:45 +0000
To: info-cyrus
Subject: Re: Cyrus + SASL : auxprop authentication problem.
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=info-cyrus&m=103533493704823

>     Hi Everyone,
>  
>     I'm having a little trouble using the Cyrus SASL auxprop
> authentication.
>  
>     It seens that I can't authenticate users that has an AT (@) in their
> usernames. 
>  
>     Ex: 
>  
>     If I create a username called jungle using the password 'foobar'
> using the saslpasswd2  everything goes ok, but if I create a user called
> jungle@foo.bar , it does not work. I can't authenticate it.

Three things:

1) You need unix hierarchysep turned on otherwise the above
is seen as user.jungle@foo.bar that is to say "bar" underneath
jungle@foo's INBOX.

2) To create the SASL user do: saslpasswd2 -c -u foo.bar jungle

3) foo.bar must be listed in the "loginrealms" field in your imapd.conf