Hello, Here is what I get when I try to enter an sasl password: lx93:~ # saslpasswd abarthel Password: Again (for verification): saslpasswd: generic failure Any idea what could be the problem and where I have to look ===== What you see in /var/log/messages: Dec 11 09:32:59 lx93 service-lmtpunix[9601]: executed Dec 11 09:32:59 lx93 lmtpd[9601]: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb: Permission denied Dec 11 09:32:59 lx93 lmtpd[9601]: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb: Permission denied ===== I checked that /etc/sasldb has rw permission for user root. ===== lx93:/etc # imtest -u cyrus -m login localhost C: C01 CAPABILITY S: * OK lx93 Cyrus IMAP4 v2.0.16 server ready S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT MULTIAPPEND SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES IDLE AUTH=ANONYMOUS AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=PLAIN X-NETSCAPE S: C01 OK Completed Password: C: L01 LOGIN root {7} + go ahead C: <omitted> L01 NO Login failed: authentication failure Authentication failed. generic failure Security strength factor: 0 .. logout * BYE LOGOUT received .. OK Completed Connection closed. ===== I can only enter cyradm with instruction: #> cyradm -u cyrus -auth login localhost ===== By the way Cyrus-Imap finally works -- Alain Barthélemy Section de Biosécurité et Biotechnologie Institut de Santé Publique R. Juliette Wytsman, 14 B-1050 Bruxelles