vchkpw debian help request
Hi, here is a long thread [sorry] between me and ken at inter7.com. I'm
trying to get the debian qmail working but I don't think I have vchkpw
working properly with vpopmail. I can send mail ok but on receiving I
believe the trouble is vchkpw is not working with vpopmail to
authenticate passwords for test users. Ken suggests I compile the new
version from source but that's just not the debian way so... if anyone
can give advice on this I'm eager to listen. Best, Justin
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Jones [mailto:kbo@inter7.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 11:11 AM
To: justin@engine8.com
Subject: Re: [vchkpw] vchkpw help request
Wow. Too much for me to read through and debug for ya!
Sorry.
I would go with a source code installation.
Sounds like the debian maintainer made changes to the
base code so it will take a code review for him to make
those same changes in the latest stable/development releases.
Ken
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 12:48 pm, you wrote:
> Hi ken, thanks for the reply. I believe the trouble is with vchkpw
> authenticating passwords. I can send from an account but can't
receive
> mail-- I get <justintest@nitevibe.com>:
> Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. vpopmail (#5.1.1). I'll go over
> the vchkpw config again at inter7.com/vpopmail/install and will
> hopefully have it figured out.
>
> ps aux shows this line.
>
> 'qmaild 2198 0.0 0.0 1376 576 ? S Apr21 0:00
> /usr/bin/tcpserver -l hostname -u 64011 -g 65534 -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb'
>
> while I tried tcpserver -l 'myhostname' but tcpserver gave me back the
> help menu. what is the syntax for changing the tcpserver hostname to
> myhostname? I already edited qmail and vpopmail in /etc/init.d
>
> I chown vpopmail.vchkpw /var/lib/vpopmail/domains
>
>
> Lastly: I see three of these in /etc 'inetd.conf.qmail-preinst.24432'
>
> I assume I can safely remove the two older ones and perhaps any old
> subsequent ones after qmail restarts?
>
> Thanks much! Justin
>
> Ps: if you think I've gone off track anywhere-- which doc do you
> recommend I re-read.
>
> I emailed the deb package maintainer about the new vpopmail and he
said
> the packaging was completely different and wouldn't get to building it
> for a while. Debian has equivs to make dummy deb packages though I've
> yet to fool around with it.
>
> In one of the docs you mention a debian specific .so linking error.
In
> my experience this was only present on an install with the almost
stable
> woody or debian 3.0 version-- might be worth mentioning?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Jones [mailto:kbo@inter7.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 9:43 AM
> To: justin@engine8.com
> Subject: Re: [vchkpw] vchkpw help request
>
> Those debian packages are very old.
> You might want to install from source code instead and get
> the latest versions.
>
> Ken Jones
>
> On Monday 22 April 2002 12:40 pm, justin cunningham wrote:
> > Hello, I'm having trouble with a vpopmail & qmail functionality and
am
> > hoping someone here can help me out.
> >
> > This is a debian packaged install built by a co-worker who compiled
>
> the
>
> > debs for the server from which I'm emailing you so it's not a
compile
> > config error. The server is debian stable.
> >
> > Currently I can vadd domain and test users, establish connection
from
> > mua to mail.domain.com but can't access nor authenticate pop3.
> >
> > All debs installed properly.
> >
> > autorespond_1.0.0-1_i386.deb
> > courier-imap_0.31-vauth.1_i386.deb
> > ezmlm-idx_0.53-4_i386.deb
> > libmysqlclient6_3.22.30-4.deb
> > libvpopmail-dev_4.9.9-1_i386.deb
> > libvpopmail-freecdb_4.9.9-1_i386.deb
> > libvpopmail-lmysql_4.9.9-1_i386.deb
> > libvpopmail-mysql_4.9.9-1_i386.deb
> > libvpopmail1_4.9.9-1_i386.deb
> > qmail_1.03-17_i386.deb
> > qmailadmin_0.45-1_i386.deb
> > ucspi-tcp_0.84-1_i386.deb
> > vpopmail-bin_4.9.9-1_i386.deb
> > vpopmail-doc_4.9.9-1_all.deb
> >
> >
> > Created the me file manually; made it mail.mydomain.com, edited
> > /etc/hosts to show
> > 127.x localhost hostname
> > 208.x mail.mydomain.com mail
> >
> > added -l 'hostname' to /etc/init.d/vpopmail & qmail <-- identical to
>
> my
>
> > mailserver
> >
> > added '#pop3 stream tcp nowait root
> > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup hostname.mydomain.com
> > /var/lib/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir' to
> > /etc/init.d.conf.'
> >
> > this shouldn't matter since it's commented out but added anyway.
> >
> > There are three of these in /etc 'inetd.conf.qmail-preinst.24432' I
> > thought that was a pid but didn't see it in ps aux. -must be from
> > restarting qmail and vpopmail a few times.
> >
> > Tried telling tcpserver -l not to resolve dns and replace 'hostname'
> > with 'hostname' but it didn't accept syntax shown in man tcpserver.
I
> > looked online and this option is really for servers that are also
> > running named so it shouldn't be relevant.
> >
> > Compared all conf files to my mailserver e.g. same setup et al and
> > they're the same.
> >
> > There was mention in the vpopmail install doc of adding vchkpw to
the
> > popserver e.g. vpopmail but the config is identical to mailhub.
> >
> > netstat & nmap localhost show relevant ports open and listening.
> >
> > Thanks for any help. justin
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