Re: Cannot LOGIN using openssl s_client

Patrick Boutilier <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.cyrus
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 04/27/2018 10:56 AM, James B. Byrne via Info-cyrus wrote:
> OS          : CentOS-6.9
> Name        : cyrus-imapd
> Arch        : x86_64
> Version     : 2.3.16
> Release     : 15.el6
> 
> We have a working Apache-2.2 /Squirrelmail-1.42 (SM) / Cyrus-IMAP-2.3
> (CI) setup.  SM and CI reside on different hosts.  We use TLS over
> port 993 to communicate.  The login mechanism is plaintext
> authenticating against /etc/passwd.
> 
> We are in the process of transitioning from this setup to one hosted
> on FreeBSD and I am having problems getting SM on the new host to
> connect to the existing CI service.  To debug this I am using openssl
> s_client as follows:
> 
> openssl s_client \
>    -connect imap.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca:993 \
>    -CApath /usr/local/etc/pki/tls/certs
> 
> Resulting in:
> . . .
>      Start Time: 1524836386
>      Timeout   : 300 (sec)
>      Verify return code: 19 (self signed certificate in certificate chain)
> ---
> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID AUTH=PLAIN SASL-IR
> COMPRESS=DEFLATE] inet07.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca Cyrus IMAP
> v2.3.16-Fedora-RPM-2.3.16-15.el6 server ready
> 
> LOGIN testusermb testuserpw
> LOGIN BAD Please login first
> 
> According to the documentation the message LOGIN BAD means that the
> arguments to the LOGIN command are not understood.  But, as far as I
> can discover, the LOGIN command only takes two arguments: user name
> and password.
> 
> I get the same results on both the new SM host and the old so the
> issue is with my employment of s_client.  How does one connect to a
> mailbox using s_client?
> 
> 

You need something at the start like a period

. LOGIN testusermb testuserpw

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