On Saturday 26 July 2003 14:28, Pete OConnell wrote:
Any ideas? gettin a bit desperate now.
- Original Message -
From: Pete OConnell
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 6:19 PM
Subject: [vchkpw] Error in Authorisation
I run the following command
/home/vpopmail/bin# ./vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and use the password as bigbob (not usual password) :) and it fails
authorisation.
-ERR authorization failed
I use the username of [EMAIL PROTECTED] am I doing
something wrong?
the only question i see here is am I doing something wrong?
so the answer to your question is... yes. if it's not working, then it's
probably a safe bet to say that you are indeed doing something wrong.
with that said, i also think it's a safe bet that, if you were to ask the
question you really meant to ask, it would have been something along the
lines of what am i doing wrong, and does anybody have any suggestions for
how i can get it to work correctly?
i know this may sound kind of rude, and in a small way it's meant to (it's
meant more to get your attention than to offend.) the problem is that you
aren't asking a very good question. i would suggest you visit the following
web page before asking questions on this list (or any other mailing list)
again:
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
of course, i think everybody can benefit from reading this page, even if
you've read it before. i read through it myself every few months, because
i'm not perfect- i've been known to ask questions without thinking from
time to time.
with that said, the people on the list are not mind readers. we will need
more information if we are going to try and help you. and even though my
remarks above may sound a bit rude, i do want to try and help. (i'm not
really a jerk, i just play one on TV...)
what version of vpopmail are you running? what kind of system? what kind of
authentication (LDAP, mysql, cdb files, etc.) are you using?
WHEN are you seeing the error message? is it when you type the vadduser
command? when you try to do a POP3 or IMAP session? if it's part of a POP3
or IMAP session, what POP3/IMAP server are you running? how does that
software handle authentication?
are you using what you know to be a correct password, or are you
deliberately using the wrong password in order to make sure it fails when
it's supposed to? your message isn't 100% clear on this point.
have you checked the disk usage (both blocks and inodes) on the filesystem
containing /home/vpopmail? have you checked the ownership and permissions
of the various files?
vpopmail itself is designed to set up, administer, and deliver mail to,
local domains. it provides a checkpassword program so that POP3/IMAP
clients written for qmail will work with vpopmail, but it is not a POP3 or
IMAP server itself. as long as incoming mail makes it to the correct place
under /home/vpopmail, the vpopmail software is doing its job.
i mention this because, if it's a POP3/IMAP issue, you may have better
results asking on the mailing list of the POP3/IMAP software. that's not to
say people here won't at least try to help you though.
to sum it up, your question needs a LOT more detail before anybody is going
to be able to help you.
peace.
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