Good afternoon,
I know this question has been posted may times before but I've I haven't
been able to resolve my problem. I am unable to authenticate POP sessions
using vchkpw. My installation was totally standard and my qmail server is
working. I've read every mailing list and FAQ I could get my hands on over
the last week or so and I still can't seem to solve it. I'm running RH6.2.
Just for info, I have the main domain nhwebsolutions.com and 2 virtual
domains (nhlansolutions.com & chadburyhomes.com)
When I try and authenticate on command line I get -ERR authorization failed
(doesn't matter which domain I use, I get the same result):
[root@felicity bin]# telnet 127.0.0.1
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
[root@felicity bin]# telnet 127.0.0.1 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+OK
pass bob
-ERR authorization failed
Connection closed by foreign host.
Now, it seems to me that the POP service is running although I don't know if
I have the correct syntax in the inetd.conf:
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup
qmail-popup nhwebsolutions.com /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /sbin/smtp-setauth
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
The name of the machine is felicity.nhwebsolutions.com but I have just
nhwebsolutions.com, could this also cause an issue?
I have tried setting this up using tcpserver, but I can't even seem to get
that even close to working. I can't even connect on port 110, I just get
connection refused.
Another area I think may be causing the trouble is with user and group
permissions. This is what I have:
[root@felicity Rob]# cd /home/vpopmail
[root@felicity vpopmail]# ls -l
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 5 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Apr 8 11:49 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Apr 9 11:23 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Apr 8 12:00 doc
drwx--x--x 4 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Apr 9 11:42 domains
drwxr-xr-x 2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Apr 10 14:09 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Apr 8 12:00 include
drwxr-xr-x 2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Apr 8 12:00 lib
drwx------ 2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Apr 8 12:00 users
[root@felicity vpopmail]# cd domains
[root@felicity domains]# ls -l
total 8
drwx------ 5 alias vchkpw 4096 Apr 10 07:02 chadburyhomes.com
drwx------ 4 alias vchkpw 4096 Apr 9 11:27 nhlanbsolutions.com
[root@felicity domains]# cd nhlansolutions.com
[root@felicity nhwebsolutions.com]# ls -l
total 16
drwx------ 3 alias vchkpw 4096 Apr 9 11:25 postmaster
drwx------ 3 alias vchkpw 4096 Apr 9 11:27 rob
-rw------- 1 alias vchkpw 181 Apr 9 11:27 vpasswd
-rw------- 1 alias vchkpw 2273 Apr 9 11:27 vpasswd.cdb
[root@felicity nhwebsolutions.com]# cd rob
[root@felicity rob]# ls -l
total 4
drwx------ 5 alias vchkpw 4096 Apr 9 11:27 Maildir
[root@felicity rob]# cd Maildir
[root@felicity Maildir]# ls -l
total 16
drwx------ 2 alias vchkpw 4096 Apr 9 11:27 cur
drwx------ 2 alias vchkpw 4096 Apr 9 17:44 new
-rw------- 1 alias vchkpw 15 Apr 9 11:27 sqwebmail-pass
drwx------ 2 alias vchkpw 4096 Apr 9 17:44 tmp
[root@felicity Maildir]
Contents of /etc/passwd
alias:x:521:523::/var/qmail/alias:/bin/bash
qmaild:x:522:523::/var/qmail:/bin/bash
qmaill:x:523:523::/var/qmail:/bin/bash
qmailp:x:524:523::/var/qmail:/bin/bash
qmailq:x:525:524::/var/qmail:/bin/bash
qmailr:x:526:524::/var/qmail:/bin/bash
qmails:x:527:524::/var/qmail:/bin/bash
vpopmail:x:528:522::/home/vpopmail:/bin/bash
It seems like there aren't enough rights, but the virtual domains were
created by the vpopmail utilities. Just on a site note, the qmail
installation installed /vhome/nhwebsolutions/home, but there is nothing in
those directories.
The docs aren't all that clear and any help in fixing this would be great.
Rob.
