[vchkpw] Trouble authenticating unix AND vpopmail users in POP3
I have an odd problem, that I just discovered on a server that I need to put into production tomorrow. I have a mixture of unix system users AND vpopmail virtual users on the same server, but for a reason I cannot figure out, I can authenticate vpopmail users fine for POP3 or IMAP, but I can NOT authenticate system users for POP3. I am running qmail's stock pop3d with vchkpw like this: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -l 0 -R -H 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ SERVERNAME /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir I can authenticate both types of users fine against IMAP, using the standard courier-imap startup script (not using tcpserver). I get this error in the maillog (telnet localhost 110): vchkpw-webmail: vpopmail user not found someuser@:127.0.0.1 It's like vchkpw is ONLY trying to authenticate vpopmail users. I could have sworn I had this going a while back, but since then the only changes I can think of is the addition of a bunch of users/assign entries for the vpopmail virtual domains. Does there need to be a catchall entry there for system users that just use normal delivery to $HOME ? Here are the authdaemonrc auth modules: authmodulelist=authvchkpw authpam Both /etc/pam.d/imap and /etc/pam.d/pop3 have this entry: auth requiredpam_unix.sono_warntry_first_pass Ideas? James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor u...@3.am http://3.am = !DSPAM:4a7f1a4332714290833933!
[vchkpw] Re: Trouble authenticating unix AND vpopmail users in POP3
Please disregard this...I found the problem. I had initially installed the devel (5.5) version of vpopmail from FreeBSD ports, but uninstalled it when I ran into some minor anomolies with qmail-admin and installed 5.4.27. When I did that, I forgot to add WITH_PASSWD=YES to the ports Makefile. I reinstalled it and it looks fine now. On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, u...@3.am wrote: I have an odd problem, that I just discovered on a server that I need to put into production tomorrow. I have a mixture of unix system users AND vpopmail virtual users on the same server, but for a reason I cannot figure out, I can authenticate vpopmail users fine for POP3 or IMAP, but I can NOT authenticate system users for POP3. I am running qmail's stock pop3d with vchkpw like this: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -l 0 -R -H 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ SERVERNAME /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir I can authenticate both types of users fine against IMAP, using the standard courier-imap startup script (not using tcpserver). I get this error in the maillog (telnet localhost 110): vchkpw-webmail: vpopmail user not found someuser@:127.0.0.1 It's like vchkpw is ONLY trying to authenticate vpopmail users. I could have sworn I had this going a while back, but since then the only changes I can think of is the addition of a bunch of users/assign entries for the vpopmail virtual domains. Does there need to be a catchall entry there for system users that just use normal delivery to $HOME ? Here are the authdaemonrc auth modules: authmodulelist=authvchkpw authpam Both /etc/pam.d/imap and /etc/pam.d/pop3 have this entry: auth requiredpam_unix.sono_warntry_first_pass Ideas? James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor u...@3.am http://3.am = James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor u...@3.am http://3.am = !DSPAM:4a7f1d8b32714612414082!
[vchkpw] Stupid roaming-users question
I've configured this before, but I can't figure out why it isn't working this time (new server). I compiled vpopmail with roaming users, and it's putting the open-smtp where it always has, under ~vpopmail/etc/. In the past, tcpserver always found it, AND the /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb file even though it was invoked thusly: -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb How does one get tcpserver to recognise the rules in both files? TIA, James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am =
Re: [vchkpw] Re: Stupid roaming-users question
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Peter Palmreuther wrote: Hello List, On Monday, August 28, 2006 at 5:04:23 PM up wrote: I've configured this before, but I can't figure out why it isn't working this time (new server). I compiled vpopmail with roaming users, and it's putting the open-smtp where it always has, under ~vpopmail/etc/. In the past, tcpserver always found it, AND the /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb file even though it was invoked thusly: -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb How does one get tcpserver to recognise the rules in both files? Simple. Make /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb a symlink to ~vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb. Sorry if I'm still confused...on the old server, I actually had simlinks the other way around. In ~vpopmail/etc/ I had simlinks to /etc/tcp.smtp and /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb and it worked. It doesn't on the new install. I tried reversing it the way you recommended, but it still doesn't work. (chowned vpopmail all the files, although open_smtp always gets created as root owned). I assume that somehow tcpserver either sees the open_smtp file when you do this, of its contents get somehow included in the tcp.smtp file, but I'm not seeing it...how does tcpserver know about the contents of the open_smtp file? replying to my own post...I found that FreeBSD ports, where I installed it from, for some reason has some nonsensical defaults, such as: --enable-tcpserver-file=/usr/local/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp yet, I put in a symlink from /usr/local/vpopmail/etc to /home/vpopmail/etc, which I would have thought would have fixed this, but it didn't... Please disregard...it did fix it, I just had to give vpopmail a minute to update the tcp.cdb. Sorry... James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am =
Re: [vchkpw] Re: Stupid roaming-users question
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Alex Borges wrote: I hope its the question thats stupid. We regretfully have no human-rights compatible fix for stupid users. Sorry for the unwanted noise...in my rush to install a bazillion different packages, it didn't occur to me that FreeBSD ports would default to what looks like a non-standard location for the cdb file. James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am =
[vchkpw] vpasswd.cdb problems?
I tried the qmailadmin list to no avail, but since this appears that it might be a vchkpw problem, I thought I'd try here. I am trying to make the following upgrades: qmailadmin 1.0.2 to 1.2.10 vpopmail 5.3.8 to 5.4.13 sqwebmail 4.0.3 to 5.1.2 the vpopmail users password files are simple .cdb files in: ~vpopmail/domains/somedomain.com/vpasswd.cdb If I create a new test domain, postmaster and users, they all authenticate fine in qmailadmin and sqwebmail. The old domains that I copied over do not, even though the format looks the same to me. I checked the docs for vconvert, but they seem to only pertain to converting to another database format. Is there something I'm missing here? TIA! James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am =
Re: [vchkpw] vpasswd.cdb problems?
Please disregard this. I stupidly forgot all about the /var/qmail/users file. On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried the qmailadmin list to no avail, but since this appears that it might be a vchkpw problem, I thought I'd try here. I am trying to make the following upgrades: qmailadmin 1.0.2 to 1.2.10 vpopmail 5.3.8 to 5.4.13 sqwebmail 4.0.3 to 5.1.2 the vpopmail users password files are simple .cdb files in: ~vpopmail/domains/somedomain.com/vpasswd.cdb If I create a new test domain, postmaster and users, they all authenticate fine in qmailadmin and sqwebmail. The old domains that I copied over do not, even though the format looks the same to me. I checked the docs for vconvert, but they seem to only pertain to converting to another database format. Is there something I'm missing here? TIA! James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am = James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am =
[vchkpw] Multiple open-smtp s?
I use vpopmail strictly for POP authentication on a particular server, and I'd like to make it so that a different SMTP server will read that POP server's open-smtp info *in addition* to its own to allow relaying. I'd like to do this without using MySQL. Can/should this be done using NFS and starting tcpserver with more than one '-x (say -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb AND -x/mnt/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb) or is there a better way to get another .cdb from another host in there? TIA, James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am =
Re: [vchkpw] Multiple open-smtp s?
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: On Tuesday 27 April 2004 12:13 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use vpopmail strictly for POP authentication on a particular server, and I'd like to make it so that a different SMTP server will read that POP server's open-smtp info *in addition* to its own to allow relaying. I'd like to do this without using MySQL. Bruce Guenter's relay-ctrl package (http://untroubled.org/relay-ctrl) is far better suited for this style of setup, and is safe to use over NFS (I know, I've done it) and doesn't require rebuilding a CDB for every authentication, etc. Sounds like the trick, but will it also work with vchkpw? I couldn't find any indication on Bruce's site (and please don't make me join yet another mailing list to get this one answer!). One of my servers could do without vpopmail, since it's only using it for pop auth, but the other has virtual users. TIA! James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am =
Re: [vchkpw] How to leave a copy of email on the qmail server usingpop3 ...
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Lucy wrote: Thank you all for the suggestions. I did do the client configuration as you described as below b4, but no effects. really why ? Outlook Express - Tools - Accounts - Mail - Properties - Advanced and tick the box Leave copy of message on server If server can keep the copy where does qmail store still /home/vpopmail/domains/peak-mobile.com/lucy.liu/Maildir/new/ ? ~user/Maildir/cur James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am =
[vchkpw] Re: Best IMAPd for vchkpw w/roaming-users
Sorry for replying to the list, but I'm getting into a time crunch here. I see no references to updating this file in the FAQ or any other docs. In fact, preauthvchkpw.c doesn't appear to exist anywhere in the vpopmail source, only in sqwebmail and courier-imap. Can someone please shed some light here? TIA, On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Nicholas Horwood wrote: hi there. Did you update preauthvchkpw.c source file in vpopmail for use with courier-imap? nicholas yep, I'm invoking qmail-pop3d with vchkpwd and authentications are working with it... thanks, On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Nicholas Horwood wrote: Have you managed to get vpopmail to authenticate your pop3 requests? It could be that vpopmail isn't set up properly. nicholas On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, nicholas wrote: Hi James. Didn't know you were on this list, (I hang out on inetaccess). Can you authenticate using authvchpw in imap.conf before you try using roaming? or are you not getting past authentication No, the only way I've gotten courier-imap to authenticate at all is to run its authdaemon with authpam listed. nicholas I checked all the docs, list archives for this and the Courier-IMAP list, followed the FAQ at: http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/FAQ (no 34) and what I'm trying to do still doesn't seem to work...I'm trying to configure the following: qmail/tcpserver/sqwebmail/maildrop/vpopmail -- All of these are working fine together. I am authenticating against the system password database, with no virtual users, with roaming-users on. To do this, I had to use sqwebmail's authdaemon with authdaemon in the authmodule list. The only way I've been able to get courier-imap users to authenticate successfully is to start its authdaemon with authpam in the module list. Putting authvchpw in that list still does not allow roaming users, despite following vpopmail's faq instructions (perhaps this only works for virtual users?). If somebody can recommend another good Maildir native IMAPd that works this way, I'd be grateful. I wouldn't mind a popd replacement that works with the same setup but shows the client large attachment download status (STAT?). TIA, James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am =
[vchkpw] Best IMAPd for vchkpw w/roaming-users
I checked all the docs, list archives for this and the Courier-IMAP list, followed the FAQ at: http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/FAQ (no 34) and what I'm trying to do still doesn't seem to work...I'm trying to configure the following: qmail/tcpserver/sqwebmail/maildrop/vpopmail -- All of these are working fine together. I am authenticating against the system password database, with no virtual users, with roaming-users on. To do this, I had to use sqwebmail's authdaemon with authdaemon in the authmodule list. The only way I've been able to get courier-imap users to authenticate successfully is to start its authdaemon with authpam in the module list. Putting authvchpw in that list still does not allow roaming users, despite following vpopmail's faq instructions (perhaps this only works for virtual users?). If somebody can recommend another good Maildir native IMAPd that works this way, I'd be grateful. I wouldn't mind a popd replacement that works with the same setup but shows the client large attachment download status (STAT?). TIA, James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am =
