Dear Admins, I have a Linux box running RedHat 6.2 and is a local mail server. The problem is that it cannot authenticate imap and pop requests(I use pine and it says "Authentication failure"). For your info: imap and pop services are enabled in /etc/inetd.conf and ------------- the services are listed in the /etc/services file. The following is the message logged in /var/log/messages file when I connect using imap: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Aug 25 14:04:17 mail pam_rhosts_auth[11611]: denied to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as jack: access not allowed Aug 25 13:47:53 mail in.rshd[11611]: rsh denied to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as jacobr: Permission denied. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I thought this might be due to PAM authentication and commented out the following lines from the file /etc/pam.d/rsh : auth required /lib/security/pam_rhosts_auth.so After commenting out I still get the message in pine as "Authentication failure". But this time the above messages does not appear in the 'messages' file but the /var/log/maillog says : ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aug 25 13:47:53 mail imapd[11612]: imap service init from 172.16.2.52 Aug 25 13:47:56 mail imapd[11612]: Login failure user=jacobr host=exodus.rri.local.net [172.16.2.52] Aug 25 13:47:59 mail imapd[11612]: AUTHENTICATE LOGIN failure host=exodus.rri.local.net [172.16.2.52] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Could someone help me out solve this problem. I would also like to know how do I disable PAM authentication? Thankyou in advance, Cheers, Jacob Rajan, Systems Manager, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore - 80 ---------------------------------------------- Find out more about this and other Linux India mailing lists at http://lists.linux-india.org/
