[vox-tech] Squirrel Mail Authentication Problems

[Ryan]

I think I have imap set up incorrectly. In the manual it says that if
authdaemon isn't running, imap won't work correctly. I have never used
imap before and I can't seem to locate the log file for courier.

In /var/log/messages I see this line:

Mar 22 06:54:33 the45 authdaemon: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: No
such file or directory

So it looks like the authdaemon isn't working correctly.

What imapd do you use? I am using courier only because that is what SM
recommends.

I forgot to mention this, but I had run that configure script. I set the
imap server to courier but I dont see any option to set the auth_type to
userdb.

I'll tweak around SM after I get the imap configured properly. Do you
know how to access the courier log?


-ryan




On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 10:54, ME wrote:
> Ryan said:
> > 	"ERRORUnknown user or password incorrect."
> >
> > I am using version 1.2.10 along with courier-0.42.0 and php4.3. I have
> > started the imapd and authdaemond but I still can't login. I have no
> > idea how to even start trying to figure what is wrong.
> 
> First, php 4.3 had some security holes and bugs, and upgrades from 4.3 to
> 4.3.1 was suggested.
> 
> Next, there has been discussion on the SM lists that SM is not fully
> compatable with the 4.3.x series of PHP, and use of the latest 4.2.x was
> better for stability.
> 
> Next, SM 1.2.11 was released t fix security issues in 1.2.10, so you may
> want to upgrade that too.
> 
> (more)
> 
> > 	Before messing with imap and squirrel mail I have been using exim and
> > qpopper.
> 
> qpopper also has had posted security issues.
> 
> (See http://www.securityfocus.com/ and the BUGTRAQ link to search archives.)
> 
> > These are currently running and have not been restarted or
> > touched. The only thing I have tried is compiling and make install-ing
> > imap, and then doing an 'imapd start' and 'authdaemond start'.
> 
> Have you ever run SM before? If Not, you will also need to run the SM
> config program.
> 
> cd to the web publishes SM dir, and from there, cd into its "config" dir.
> >From there run config.pl:
> ./config.pl
> 
> COnfigure SM to match your system with the same IMAP client and auth
> method. I chose to setup my courrier-imap to use the userdb based auth so
> the passwords used for imap need not be the same as those in /etc/passwd.
> 
> Next note:
> When I upgraded from 1.2.10 to 1.4.0RC1,RC2,RC2a, I had to rebuild my
> config.php from scratch using the entries from the other in 1.2.10. It
> seems
> a copy of the config file over to the new one was not enough.
> 
> You can check your logs too, to see what error isbeing reported. SM auths
> against imap so the courrier log entries should giuve you feedback on the
> problems encountered during auth.
> 
> HTH
> -ME
> 
> 
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Ryan <rcdetert@ucdavis.edu>