Question

Problems with userdb and courier-authlib

Asked by: Anonymouslemming

Hi all,                                                                          
                                                                                 
I'm having problems with userdb and courier on FreeBSD 5.3. I was trying        
to get this all working with Squirrelmail, but for the moment, I am just        
trying to test with authtest and by telnetting to port 143 on my                
machine.                                                                        
                                                                                 
Firstly, if I try and test a system user, everything works fine. The            
problems only occur if I try and test a userdb user.                            
                                                                                 
Here is what I have done so far:                                                
                                                                                 
1. Created /usr/local/etc/authlib/userdb                                        
2. Created a user named foo in the file somedomain.com by doing the              
   following:                                                                    
   userdb somedomain.com/foo set \                                              
   mail=/var/mail/virtual/somedomain.com/foo shell=/sbin/nologin uid=26 \        
   gid=6                                                                        
3. Created foo's maildir by sending him an e-mail. This created the              
   following:                                                                    
   /var/mail/virtual/somedomain.com  mailnull:mail  750                          
   /var/mail/virtual/somedomain.com/foo  mailnull:mail  750                      
   /var/mail/virtual/somedomain.com/foo/cur  mailnull:mail  750                  
   /var/mail/virtual/somedomain.com/foo/new  mailnull:mail  750                  
   /var/mail/virtual/somedomain.com/foo/tmp  mailnull:mail  750                  
   /var/mail/virtual/somedomain.com/foo/new/messagefile.domain \                
   mailnull:mail  660                                                            
4. Assigned the user a password - I have tried both with and without            
   -md5                                                                          
   userdbpw -md5 | userdb somedomain.com/foo set systempw                        
   then after those tests failed,                                                
   userdbpw | userdb somedomain.com/foo set systempw                            
5. Run makeuserdb after the above step each time

I have also set DEBUG_LOGIN=2 in authdaemonrc and restarted it. I also          
have the following line in this file:                                            
authmodulelist="authuserdb authpam"                                              
                                                                                 
When I try the authtest, I get the following:                                    
                                                                                 
-su-2.05b# authtest foo                                                          
Authentication FAILED: Operation not permitted                                  
                                                                                 
I get nothing in /var/log/maillog when I do this.                                
                                                                                 
If I try the same with a system user, I get this on STDOUT:                      
                                                                                 
-su-2.05b# authtest waynep mypass                                                
Authentication succeeded.                                                        
                                                                                 
     Authenticated: waynep  (system username: waynep)                            
    Home Directory: /home/waynep                                                
           Maildir: (none)                                                      
             Quota: (none)                                                      
Encrypted Password: encrypted password                                          
Cleartext Password: (none)                                                      
           Options: wbnodsn=1                                                    
                                                                                 
At the same time, I get the following in /var/log/maillog                        
                                                                                 
Mar 26 20:04:08 freebsd-mail authdaemond: Authenticated:                        
sysusername=waynep, sysuserid=<null>, sysgroupid=1001,                          
homedir=/home/waynep, address=waynep, fullname=Wayne Pascoe,                    
maildir=<null>, quota=<null>, options=<null>                                    
Mar 26 20:04:08 freebsd-mail authdaemond: Authenticated:                        
clearpasswd=mypass, passwd=encryptedpassword                                    
                                                                                 
If I try and telnet to port 143 and login as foo, this is what I get on          
STDOUT:                                                                          
-su-2.05b# telnet localhost 143                                                  
Trying ::1...                                                                    
Connected to localhost.virtual.penguinpowered.org.                              
Escape character is '^]'.                                                        
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE                            
* THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION        
* STARTTLS] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2005 Double Precision,            
* Inc.  See COPYING for distribution information.                                
a login foo test                  
a NO Login failed.                                                              
                                                                                 
I also get this in /var/log/maillog:                                            
Mar 26 20:06:07 freebsd-mail imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=foo, ip=[::1]            
                                                                                 
Can anyone advise me what I should try next ? It looks like userdb will          
solve my virtualdomain problems, and I'm really keen to get this all up          
and running :D                                                                  
                                                                                 
Thanks in advance,

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courier-authlib

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by: gheistPosted on 2005-03-26 at 22:20:46ID: 13638474

authmodulelist="authuserdb authpam"  

this is case sensitive.

 

by: AnonymouslemmingPosted on 2005-03-27 at 02:08:39ID: 13638836

It looks like I've solved this. Each account MUST have a home entry. I have just set this to be the same as the mail entry, and this now works.

 

by: moduloPosted on 2005-04-03 at 13:28:09ID: 13693322

Closed, 500 points refunded.

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