I am facing the exact same problem. Does anyone have an answer for
this? I would be much appreciated.


FCOJ wrote:
> I would like to migrate about 600 mailboxes from a debian box running
> courier-imapd to another debian box running cyrus 2.2.
>
> On the source machine the passwords of users are stored in
> /etc/shadow, so I have no way of knowing the password for every user. I
> would like to authenticate as an admin user with --authuser1 option of
> imapsync to be authorized as any user, so I try this:
>
> max-test:/# imapsync --host1 source.host.com --user1 a_username
> --authuser1 root --host2 dest.host.com --user2
> a_username@dest.host.com --authuser2 cyrus
> $RCSfile: imapsync,v $ $Revision: 1.182 $ $Date: 2006/08/01 23:07:42 $
> Mail::IMAPClient version used here is 2.2.9
> will try to use PLAIN authentication on host1
> will try to use PLAIN authentication on host2
> >From imap server [source.host.com] port [143] user [a_username]
> To imap server [dest.host.com] port [143] user [a_user@dest.host.com]
> What's the password for root@source.host.com? xxxxxx
> What's the password for cyrus@dest.host.com? xxxxxx
> Banner : * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE
> THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION]
> Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2004 Double Precision, Inc. See
> COPYING for distribution information.
> source.host.com: no support for AUTHENTICATE PLAIN, using LOGIN
> Error login : [source.host.com] with user [a_user] : 3 NO Login failed.
>
>
> When prompted, I inserted the passwords for root and cyrus
> respectively, and authentication fails. If, on the other hand, I insert
> the password for the users (--user1 and --user2) everything works
> nicely.
>
> My questions are as follows.
>
> 1. How can I authenticate to courier as an admin user?
> 2. How do I authenticate to cyrus as an admin user
> 3. How do I get authorization as any user when authenticated as a
> privileged user, such as root or cyrus
> 4. Am I misunderstanding something horribly?