Hi Steffen, as discussed on IRC here my affected sample setup.
0.) This setup need the packages courier-authlib, courier-authlib-mysql courier-authdaemon and maildrop installed (no Courier mailserver needed). 1.) I created a MySQL database with the following SQL statement: CREATE DATABASE mailauth; 2.) Then I created a table "passwd" and populated it with some test data (see file mailauth.sql in the attached tarball). 3.) Then I granted SELECT rights to the MySQL user "maildrop" to be used by maildrop for sample mail delivery using the following SQL statement: GRANT SELECT ON mailauth.passwd TO maild...@localhost IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD 'aLongPassword'; 4.) The configuration files for courier-authdaemon and courier-authlib-mysql (contained in the attached tarball) should be placed in /etc/courier/ (maybe a restart of courier-authdaemon is needed). 5.) Create the maildir and home directory for the test user (make sure the dirs /tmp/test-home and /tmp/test-maildir do not exist yet): mkdir /tmp/test-home maildirmake /tmp/test-maildir chown -R nobody: /tmp/test-home /tmp/test-maildir Now the setup is complete. You can now try to deliver mail to the test-user's maildir by running the command maildrop -a -d test < /dev/null This should leave traces in /var/log/syslog like the ones posted by the submitter of this bug report. The expected behaviour would lead to lines like the following: authdaemond: received userid lookup request: test authdaemond: authmysql: trying this module authdaemond: SQL query: SELECT id, crypt, clear, uid, gid, home, maildir, quota, "", "" FROM passwd WHERE id = "test"" AND (maildrop='y') authdaemond: Authenticated: sysusername=<null>, sysuserid=65534, sysgroupid=8, homedir=/tmp/test-home, address=test, fullname=<null>, maildir=/tmp/test-maildir, quota=<null>, options=<null> Good luck for reproducing my weird setup. ;-) Regards Micha
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