On 01/03/16 02:25, Implausibility wrote: > Hi. > > I'm rather new to OpenBSD, but I've hit a wall while doing a 'dry-run' to > work out the bugs (and get familiar with OpenBSD) and build a new mail server > on OpenBSD with Postfix, MySQL/MariaDB, and Courier-authlib. > > I've been following this tutorial, and while dated, I've found it closely > matches the features I want in a mail server: > http://www.kernel-panic.it/openbsd/mail/ > > This is OpenBSD 5.8 on i386 in a VMware partition. > Some hints below.
> In short, I can't seem to authenticate through Courier-authlib. The messages > I get consistently are: [...] # grep -v \# authdaemonrc authmysqlrc pop3d-ssl pop3d.cnf authdaemonrc:authmodulelist="authmysql" authdaemonrc:authmodulelistorig="authuserdb authpwd authpgsql authldap authmysql authsqlite authpipe" authdaemonrc:daemons=10 authdaemonrc:authdaemonvar=/var/run/courier-auth authdaemonrc:DEBUG_LOGIN=3 DEBUG_LOGIN=3 is not a proper value, DEBUG_LOGIN=2 is the maximum value allowed. > authmysqlrc:MYSQL_SERVER localhost > authmysqlrc:MYSQL_USERNAME vmail > authmysqlrc:MYSQL_PASSWORD bugue > authmysqlrc:MYSQL_PORT 3306 > authmysqlrc:MYSQL_OPT 0 > authmysqlrc:MYSQL_DATABASE mail > authmysqlrc:MYSQL_USER_TABLE users > authmysqlrc:MYSQL_CRYPT_PWFIELD password > authmysqlrc:DEFAULT_DOMAIN 127.0.0.1 > authmysqlrc:MYSQL_UID_FIELD uid > authmysqlrc:MYSQL_GID_FIELD gid > authmysqlrc:MYSQL_LOGIN_FIELD login > authmysqlrc:MYSQL_HOME_FIELD home > authmysqlrc:MYSQL_NAME_FIELD name > authmysqlrc:MYSQL_MAILDIR_FIELD maildir > authmysqlrc:MYSQL_QUOTA_FIELD quota [...] > I'm not using 'localhost', as that allows use of the socket file at > /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock, which is outside the postfix jail. (Ask me how > long it took to find that one.) > if you use 'localhost' in MYSQL_SERVER parameter, courier-authdaemond will try to access the unix socket, if you use '127.0.0.1' courier-authdaemond will try to connect to mysql via tcp/ip. If connection to MySQL fails you should have this line in maillog: ------------------------ Jan 8 19:07:01 bigio authdaemond: failed to connect to mysql server (server=127.0.0.1, userid=admin): Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (61 "Connection refused") ------------------------ Cheers Giovanni
