Hello
Excuse me if I sound silly...I am new to all this.
Shouldn't Qmailadmin login as root and then change to the userid when its
access the home directory of a user.
If this can be manually done..can someone please let me know
This is what webshell 2.3 filemanager program does from psoft.net
- Sumith
----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ruben Vandille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: Authentication problems
> Ruben Vandille wrote:
> >
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I got a problem.
> > I added a new virtual domain, but I wanted the mail in the users
homedir,
> > so I did it like this:
> > [root@devet001 gaia.be]# vadddomain -i 515 -g 100 -d /home/gaia gaia.be
> >
> > All necessary changes were done correctly: vadddomain added the
directory
> > structure in /home/gaia/domains/gaia.be/, and the right line in assign:
> > [root@devet001 gaia.be]# cat /var/qmail/users/assign
> > ...
> > +gaia.be-:gaia.be:515:100:/home/gaia/domains/gaia.be:-::
> > .
> >
> > Qmail delivers mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" correctly, I can read the
mail
> > using cat /home/gaia/domains/gaia.be/postmaster/Maildir/new/*
> > But I can't read mail using POP3 and I can't configure the domain using
> > qmailadmin!
> > My maillog shows this:
> > Feb 18 04:09:00 devet001 vpopmail[13540]: vchkpw: No user found
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > I can see the user's information:
> > [root@devet001 gaia.be]# vuserinfo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > name: postmaster
> > passwd: NMkBpXcSV2rpg
> > uid: 1
> > gid: 0
> > all services available
> > gecos: Postmaster
> > dir: /home/gaia/domains/gaia.be/postmaster
> > quota: NOQUOTA
> >
> > But I can't change the user's password:
> > [root@devet001 gaia.be]# vpasswd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Enter the user's new password:
> > Please type it again for verification:
> > vpasswd: error changing the password for user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]':
> > Invalid or unknown virtual user
> >
> > Is there anybody who knows what the problem could be? And maybe he/she
> > knows a solution for this problem?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Ruben.
>
> I will take a look at it. This is the first report of any type
> of problem like this.
>
> One thing I do know, you'll need to make qmailadmin be setuid root.
> Otherwise it won't be able to go into the users directory.
> By default, qmailadmin gets installed setuid vpopmail.
>
> Ken Jones
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