> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 05:20 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re:  [SM-USERS] can't log into squirrelmail.   error code
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: p dont think [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 09:58 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [SM-USERS] can't log into squirrelmail.   error code "You must be 
> > logged in to access this page."
> >
> >
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > setup:
> > >
> > > # MAP Server (dovecot)
> > > # PHP (4.38 http://www.substantis.com/phpinfo.php)
> > > # Web server (    Apache/2.0.51 (Fedora))
> > > # Platform (Fedora Core 2)
> > > # How your software was installed (.tar.gz / configured config.pl )
> > > # SquirrelMail version (1.4.3a)
> > >
> > > problem: i can't log into squirrelmail.  the error code is "You must be logged 
> > > in to access this page."
> > >
> > > testing:  confirmed passwords from local terminal.
> >
> > as in telnet localhost 143??
> >
> > what do your IMAP logs say?
> >
> >
> everything looks ok with dovecot.  i am user validuser as a local account for 
> testing. the strange thing is that even when i get rejected for a login using a 
> valid username and password, i get the message, ""You must be logged in to access 
> this page," but when i login using a bogus name, i get a distinctly different error 
> using a bogus username and password "Unknown user or password incorrect."
>
> 1. testing dovecot from local terminal:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# telnet localhost 143
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK dovecot ready.
> 1 login validuser password
> 1 OK Logged in.
>
> this telnet session gets logged in /var/log/maillog
> Oct 28 21:30:36 testy imap-login: Login: maw [127.0.0.1]
> Oct 28 21:33:06 testy imap-login: Login: maw [127.0.0.1]
>
>
> When i attempt to login with a valid user name and password,
> i get the what looks like a valid login:
>
> var/log/maillog
> Oct 28 21:14:53 testy imap-login: Login: validuser [127.0.0.1]
>
> but the system logs say i didn't enter a user id / password:
> Oct 28 22:03:56 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[12167]: authentication failure; logname= 
> uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=
>
> when i use a bogus username and password, i get this:
> Oct 28 22:21:34 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[12186]: check pass; user unknown
> Oct 28 22:21:34 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[12186]: authentication failure; logname= 
> uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=
>
>
>

> From: p dont think [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 11:28 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SM-USERS] can't log into squirrelmail. error code
>
> >>># MAP Server (dovecot)
> >>># PHP (4.38 http://www.substantis.com/phpinfo.php)
> >>># Web server ( Apache/2.0.51 (Fedora))
> >>># Platform (Fedora Core 2)
> >>># How your software was installed (.tar.gz / configured config.pl )
> >>># SquirrelMail version (1.4.3a)
> >>>
> >>>problem: i can't log into squirrelmail. the error code is "You must be logged in 
> >>>to access this page."
> >>>
> >>>testing: confirmed passwords from local terminal.
> >>
> >>as in telnet localhost 143??
> >>
> >>what do your IMAP logs say?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > everything looks ok with dovecot. i am user validuser as a local account for 
> > testing. the strange thing is that even when i get rejected for a login using a 
> > valid username and password, i get the message, ""You must be logged in to access 
> > this page," but when i login using a bogus name, i get a distinctly different 
> > error using a bogus username and password "Unknown user or password incorrect."
> >
> > 1. testing dovecot from local terminal:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# telnet localhost 143
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > Connected to localhost.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > * OK dovecot ready.
> > 1 login validuser password
> > 1 OK Logged in.
> >
> > this telnet session gets logged in /var/log/maillog
> > Oct 28 21:30:36 testy imap-login: Login: maw [127.0.0.1]
> > Oct 28 21:33:06 testy imap-login: Login: maw [127.0.0.1]
> >
> >
> > When i attempt to login with a valid user name and password,
> > i get the what looks like a valid login:
> >
> > var/log/maillog
> > Oct 28 21:14:53 testy imap-login: Login: validuser [127.0.0.1]
> >
> > but the system logs say i didn't enter a user id / password:
> > Oct 28 22:03:56 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[12167]: authentication failure; logname= 
> > uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=
>
> Is this the *only* line associated with one login? A typical login
> creates more than one IMAP login and thus more than one line in your
> logs. If this really is the only line, then your username isn't even
> making it to the IMAP server, which means either PHP is completely
> b0rked or your SM was custom modified or has a rouge plugin that is
> stripping the username. If this is the 2nd login attempt by SM from
> your single login, this is a problem that has come up before, and was
> usually a session problem seen most frequently by people hosting SM on a
> Windows server IIRC. But it's been a while, so I don't remember
> exactly... you may want to double check your logs and do more mailing
> list archive searches.
>
> > when i use a bogus username and password, i get this:
> > Oct 28 22:21:34 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[12186]: check pass; user unknown
> > Oct 28 22:21:34 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[12186]: authentication failure; logname= 
> > uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=
>
>

REGARDING APACHE / PHP ISSUE:
in reviewing other guides to squirrelmail installs and one noted
"The /etc/php.ini file needs to be editied and have the value register_globals set to 
on. "
see http://www.linuxhelp.ca/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=3&t=3647

is this correct? my fedora core 2 rpm install is set to off but i don't know how this 
would affect squirrelmail / php's performance. can someone advise me on this subject?

REGARDING BROWSER / COOKIE ISSUES:
I have reproduced this problem on Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape, and IE. Cookies are 
enabled.

REGARDING CONFIGURATION / PLUGINS:
this is a plain vanila install on fedora core 2 via rpms. there are no pluggins. i 
installed via the "quick and dirty" instructions from the squirrelmail.org website.

REGARDING ROOT LOGINS:
yes. the documentation on dovecot states that root user is hard coded for no login. 
that's the problem. the uid stuff is getting lost. here is a grepped version of my 
system log dovecot. the uid of the individual is either recognized (validuser1) or 
lost completely. Even when dovecot gets the valiuser, its still receiving uid=zero. 
this is root's uid. i understand that part but why is squirrelmail unable to 
communicate / why is dovecot unable to understand that a nonroot user is logging in? 
moreover, why does the user at the browser see the error message "You must be logged 
in to access this page." but a bogus user or bad password gets, "Unknown user or 
password incorrect."

SYSTEM LOGS | GREP dovecot

Oct 29 07:33:50 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[31474]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 
euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= user=validuser1
Oct 29 07:46:54 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[31546]: check pass; user unknown
Oct 29 07:46:54 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[31546]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 
euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=
Oct 29 07:46:56 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[31547]: check pass; user unknown
Oct 29 07:46:56 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[31547]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 
euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=
Oct 29 07:47:09 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[31548]: check pass; user unknown
Oct 29 07:47:09 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[31548]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 
euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=
Oct 29 07:47:11 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[31549]: check pass; user unknown
Oct 29 07:47:11 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[31549]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 
euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=
Oct 29 07:49:21 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[31560]: check pass; user unknown
Oct 29 07:49:21 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[31560]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 
euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=
Oct 29 07:49:24 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[31561]: check pass; user unknown
Oct 29 07:49:24 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[31561]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 
euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=
Oct 30 01:47:45 testy dovecot: dovecot shutdown succeeded
Oct 30 02:18:52 testy dovecot: dovecot startup succeeded
Oct 30 02:22:00 testy dovecot: dovecot shutdown succeeded
Oct 30 02:31:40 testy dovecot: dovecot startup succeeded
Oct 30 04:33:15 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[5144]: check pass; user unknown
Oct 30 04:33:15 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[5144]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 
euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=
Oct 30 04:37:17 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[5154]: check pass; user unknown
Oct 30 04:37:17 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[5154]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 
euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=
Oct 30 04:48:30 testy dovecot: dovecot shutdown succeeded
Oct 30 05:07:50 testy dovecot: dovecot startup succeeded
Oct 30 12:00:07 testy dovecot(pam_unix)[2852]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 
euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= user=validuser1





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