cyradm error (...authentication failed)

[Bernie Berg <bberg@circadesign.com>]

Hello,
	I am trying to get virtual email domains running with postfix and 
cyrus.  I installed them both from I apt.  I haven't gotten very far and 
am now getting errors when trying to use cyradm.  It seems like this is 
a somewhat common error according to my googleing, but I have not been 
able to find a solution.  I running woody with the woody apt sources.

I added a cyrus user to the sasldb via:

# echo password | saslpasswd -p -c cyrus

I checked the /var/log/auth.log and it tells me:

saslpasswd: PLAIN: set secret for cyrus

so it looks like it is set right. but when I use cyradm I get the following:

# cyradm -u cyrus localhost
localhost password:
application-spacific initialization failed: authentication failed
%

So, what could I be doing wrong?  Here is my imapd.conf if it will help:

# Debian Cyrus imapd.conf
# See imapd.conf(5) for more information

# Configuration directory
configdirectory: /var/lib/cyrus

# Which partition to use for default mailboxes
defaultpartition: default
partition-default: /var/spool/cyrus/mail

# News setup
partition-news: /var/spool/cyrus/news
newsspool: /var/spool/news

# Uncomment the following and add the space-separated users who
# have admin rights
admins: cyrus mailadmin

# No anonymous logins
allowanonymouslogin: no

# Minimum time between POP mail fetches in minutes
popminpoll: 1

# umask used by Cyrus programs
umask: 077

#sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
pwcheck_method= sasldb


If you notice those last two lines, I have tried with and without both 
with the same result.  I also created a real user named cyrus and game 
it rights to sasldb... and tried all of the above logged in as cyrus.

any ideas?

thanks a million!

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