That's hasn't fixed it, but thanks for the advice. I suspect it's a shadow password issue.
Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.ai Talk to me in real time with Instant Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 1:11 PM To: Chris Mason Cc: Debian-User Subject: Re: Cyrus refuses admin password Chris Mason wrote: > > I just installed cyurs imapd and admin packages. After I edited > /etc/imapd.conf to add the line: > admins: cyrus root > > I tried to create accounts using > cyradm -user root localhost try doing it as non root ...on my mail servers i have a common account called 'admin' for the admins, and i have that as the "admin" for cyrus and i do cyradm localhost and it prompts for localhost username and password ... maybe its something specific to the root account(i wouldn't be suprised) nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]