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.
>>>
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