Sonuva... /home/mail was owned by the wrong user. Thought I checked it, apparently not.
Once again you've pointed me in the right direction. Thanks! --Kevin On Feb 18, 2007, at 9:13 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Kevin Murphy writes: > >> Already did, here's the output: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# authtest kevin@<domain name filtered> >> <password filtered> >> Authentication succeeded. >> Authenticated: kevin@<domain name filtered> (uid 503, gid 503) >> Home Directory: /home/mail/<domain name filtered>/kevin >> Maildir: (none) >> Quota: (none) >> Encrypted Password: (none) >> Cleartext Password: <password filtered> >> Options: (none) > > Now, look at the ownership and the permissions of this directory, > and the Maildir subdirectory. > > Also look at this directory's parent directory's permissions, and > it's parent directory, all the way back to /. > > This is a simple file/directory permissioning issue. > > >> On Feb 18, 2007, at 6:17 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >>> Kevin Murphy writes: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> I built and installed courier 0.54.2 RPMs on Fedora Core 6. I >>>> then setup the authentication system to use MySQL, and setup a >>>> virtual domain with the maildirs living in /home/mail/ >>>> [domain.com]/ [username] >>>> I created a courier user (503) and a courier group (503), >>>> chowned the entire /home/mail structure to courier:courier. I >>>> also configured the record in the passwd table for uid=503 and >>>> gid=503. Despite all of this, when I attempt to login to any >>>> of these accounts, I get the following entries in the log: >>>> Feb 18 14:08:27 mountaineer imapd: Connection, ip= >>>> [::ffff:<filtered IP address>] >>>> Feb 18 14:08:31 mountaineer imapd: kevin@<domain name >>>> filtered>: chdir(/home/mail/<filtered domain name>/kevin) failed!! >>>> Feb 18 14:08:31 mountaineer imapd: error: Permission denied >>>> Feb 18 14:08:31 mountaineer imapd: LOGIN FAILED, >>>> user=kevin@<filtered domain name>, ip=[::ffff:<filtered IP >>>> address>] >>>> Feb 18 14:08:31 mountaineer imapd: authentication error: >>>> Permission denied >>>> I have filtered out the IP address and domain, but rest assured >>>> that I have verified that the paths exist as configured, and >>>> the permissions are appropriate. >>>> What on earth could I be missing? >>> >>> You're missing any indication that your authentication database >>> is set up correctly. You paraphrased how you think you've set >>> up your mysql-based authentication, but you did not post your >>> actual authentication data. There's a likely disconnect between >>> what you think has happened, and what actually happened. >>> >>> Use the authtest utility in the courier-authlib package to >>> verify that your authentication configuration is set up properly. >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> -- --- >>> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >>> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance >>> to share your >>> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash >>> http://www.techsay.com/default.php? >>> page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV______________________________ >>> __ _______________ >>> courier-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ >>> courier- users >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to >> share your >> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash >> http://www.techsay.com/default.php? >> page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >> _______________________________________________ >> courier-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier- >> users > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php? > page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV________________________________ > _______________ > courier-users mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier- > users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
