it should be sasl_pwcheck_method, not sasl_passwd_check Nick
-----Original Message----- From: Vincent Stoessel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 23:47 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cyrus/pam tutorial? This what my /etc/imapd.conf looks like: configdirectory: /var/imap partition-default: /var/spool/imap admins: admin srvtab: /var/imap/srvtab allowanonymouslogin: no sasl_passwd_check: PAM allowplaintext: yes Like you , I am using the following params > auth optional ...(params for pammysql)... > account required ...(same params for pammysql)... I am tail -f ing my mysql.log (mysql is running in logging mode) and I can see connections that I make from the command line but not from the imap pam I have the same config in sudo , sudo makes the connection but not imap. Nick Ustinov wrote: > Vincent, > > I have rh7 and exactly the same situation -- pam_mysql, mysql and web > interface for user creation, which inserts necessary records to mysql tables > upon user creation. > > As for pam_mysql -- the tricky part here may be that you have unneeded line > break in end of /etc/pam.d/imap file (I was fighting this for a couple of > days :) > > Also, what format do you use in /etc/pam.d/imap ? > > I have > > auth optional ...(params for pammysql)... > account required ...(same params for pammysql)... > > and worked just fine. Did you check /var/log/messages file? also, i'd > recommend #define DEBUG in pam_mysql.c so you can see whats going on. > > > Nick > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vincent Stoessel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 22:46 > To: Nick Ustinov > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: cyrus/pam tutorial? > > > This is great. I have been banging my head against the wall here. > Let me tell you what I want to do and you tell me if it even possible. > > > 1. I moved to cyrus from UW because of the ability to create virtual > mailboxes > and sasl has worked fine > > 2, I also have a mysql database that contains user info and is also used to > authenticate > users for various parts of the website including my web based imap > client. > > what I want to do is > > 1. combine the creation of cyrus mailboxes with record creation in the sql > db > 2. have cyrus use pam_mysql to look up and authenticate passwords from the > sql database > > > are 1 or 2 possible ? > > I have compiled pam_mysql as directed and tested it with pam module for the > sudo > and it definetely checks the database when I use it there. The same is not > true for imap, > no queries are made to the database and nothing seems to work except sasl > > I am working on an intel redhat linux 7.1 system. > > Thanks in advance. > > Nick Ustinov wrote: > > >>Vincent, >> >>I am using cyrus with pam_mysql. Let me know what are the problems you are >>facing and I will try to help. In general, you compile pam module, create >>entries in /etc/pam.d (files imap and pop) with settings pam modules >> > require > >>and set in /etc/imapd.conf sasl_pwcheck_method: pam >> >>Sincerely, >>Nick >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Vincent Stoessel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 21:40 >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: cyrus/pam tutorial? >> >> >>Hello , I am having a hard time getting cyrus to >>use pam authentication. It only seems to want to work >>with sasl. Any tuttorials or hints? >> >> > > > -- Vincent Stoessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Linux Apache Mysql Php (JLAMP) Engineer (301) 362-1750 Mobile (410) 419-8588
