Ina Patricia Lopez wrote: >hi! > > as much as possible, i dont want to use packages. i want to install >from the source tarball. anyway, i started from scratch again and >followed the instructions (installing courier-imap) from >http://howtos.eoutfitters.net/email/#installation. I was able to run >imapd but my imap client (netscape messenger) always gets a failed >login, though the username/password im using can login(ssh and telnet) >to the server. i configured it with > > ./configure \ > --without-certdb \ > --without-authpam \ > --without-authldap \ > --without-authpwd \ > --without-authmysql \ > --without-authpgsql \ > --without-authvchkpw \ > --without-authcram \ > --without-authdaemon \ > --without-authcustom > >and my users are supposed to be authenticated from the /etc/shadow >file. > >[root@mail etc]# telnet 10.10.10.1 143 >Trying 10.10.10.1 ... >Connected to 10.10.10.1 >Escape character is '^]'. >* OK Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2002 Double Precision, Inc. >See COPYING for distribution information. >1 logout >* BYE Courier-IMAP server shutting down >1 OK LOGOUT completed >Connection closed by foreign host. > >my maillog shows: > >Apr 12 09:20:14 dns imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:10.10.10.2] >Apr 12 09:20:26 dns imapd: LOGOUT, ip=[::ffff:10.10.10.2] >Apr 12 09:24:48 dns imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:10.10.10.2] >Apr 12 09:24:56 dns imapd: LOGIN FAILED, ip=[::ffff:10.10.10.2] > >what else did i missed? > >thanks a lot. >ina > > >--- Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 at 07:08, Ina Patricia Lopez wrote: >> >>>im having problems on courier-imap-1.4.3. i followed the >>> >>installation >> >>>(short steps) from the INSTALL file but cant get it to work. i dont >>> >>have >> >>>the xinetd entries. im using redhat7.2 what should i do next after >>> >>the >> >>>make install-configure? i have /etc/pam.d but i dont know how am i >>>going to edit the file. i also checked /usr/lib/courier-imap/etc >>> >>but >> >>>also dont know which file to edit. >>> >>I'm curious: how about install it using the packages (RPM or deb)? >>And I >>wonder why you'd rather use xinetd. I recommend you launch the >>Courier >>IMAP daemon stand-alone, instead. It has provisions for security, and >>should scale much better with multiple connections (versus through >>some >>superserver). >> >> --> Jijo >> >>-- >>Federico Sevilla III : <http://jijo.free.net.ph/> >>Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. >>GnuPG Key Fingerprint : 0x93B746BE >> >>_ >>Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at >>http://plug.linux.org.ph >>To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body >>to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax >http://taxes.yahoo.com/ >_ >Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph >To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi Ina,
Try to modify your imapd config file (usually installed at /usr/local/etc/courier-imap/imad) and try to add authshadow at AUTHMODULES. AUTHMODULES="authshadow" HTH, Jimmy Lim Operation & Support Team Leader Tricom _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
