Ok. Ok.
First, let me apologize for submitting a question without all of the
additional detail and a list of the INSTALL steps that I completed. I
was hoping that it was a common problem and that someone would just
point out the most likely cause.
I did figure it out, by swapping out every authmodule and several
combinations from within the webadmin.
-Cause: (On my system anyway) The authpwd module will work for internal,
command line authentication, including sending the test emails. But it
will not work for the external (POP3, IMAP, WEBMAIL, ESMTP) servers,
even if the client is connecting from the local machine. The authshadow
module must be used for that.
-Resolution: Use authshadow, instead of authpwd, for authentication
through the external servers.
I was actually planning on using authshadow any once I got the server
set up, but thought that I'd use authpwd for early testing.
As penance for my sins (submitting less than the needed information with
my question), I'll point out a small typo/omission in the pop3d file:
--Version 0.42.0 (courier-0.42.0.tar.bz2, downloaded on 3/28/2003)
--/usr/lib/courier/sbin/pop3d
--Line 49 reads:
AUTHMODULELIST="$AUTHMODULELIST $libexecdir/authlib/$f"
...with "libexecdir" not bracketed. Shouldn't this read:
AUTHMODULELIST="$AUTHMODULELIST ${libexecdir}/authlib/$f"
...with brackets?
I realize that it will still work in most situations, but it doesn't
follow the convention used in the rest of the documentation, or in this
file, so I thought you would want to know about it.
I'm sure I'll have plenty more questions in the future, submitted with
full disclosure of course, so thanks in advance.
Jerome
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Jerome Bullert
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The most important lesson I ever learned from my parents:
"Do as I say, not as I do."
-Well, to be clear, I never learned to do that; I just learned to say
it.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerome
Bullert
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [courier-users] Authentication Issues
I'm having the same client auth issues that Keith described back in
December (below). I am able to send messages to local users from the
command line (echo "To: user" | /usr/lib/courier/bin/sendmail), but only
as long as the "authpwd" module is enabled. (I assume that this is
because the server must verify that the account exists before delivering
the message, which makes sense.) Even so, I cannot authenticate from an
email client to any of the servers. I receive errors indicating an
invalid username or password.
I'm starting Courier using the example script from INSTALL, and
authdaemond is running.
I've tried authenticating from the client with both "username" and
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and there is no change.
I'm running Slackware 8.1
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jerome
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Jerome Bullert
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [courier-users] Authentication Issues
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 13:35:17 -0500
Hello all,
I have just installed Red Hat 8.0 and Courier 0.40.1. I compiled
courier just using ./configure with no options ran make, make check,
make install and make install-configure and encountered no errors. Went
through the configuration procedures for IMAP, ESMTP and POP3. I am able
to send msgs to local users (echo "To: user" |
/usr/lib/courier/bin/sendmail).
The problem is when I try to login, I get back the message "Invalid User
ID or Password". I get this error no matter what kind of client I try
(imap, pop3 or webmail). I have no idea of where to start looking for
the solution. I'm sure it's something with authdaemond but not sure what
it could be. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Keith
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