Well, I'm still having trouble, but in regards to your question:
> i haven't had any luck with getting the crypted passwords to work, does
> anyone have any pointers for that? i'd rather not have unencrypted
> passwords around if possible and couldn't find documentation on that.
are you using MySQL's crypting or system's? I read somewhere in the docs
that MySQL's crypting is not the correct technique...? Try this on your
command line for a properly-crypted password:
perl -e "print crypt('yourpassword', 'two-character key')"
perl -e "print crypt('superman','Fa')"
- Jonathan
----- Original Message -----
From: "trout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: [courier-users] Trouble with Courier IMAP+MySQL Auth
> i setup a user called vmail and put all the stuff in that directory.
>
> along the format of:
> /home/vmail/domainname/username
>
> and used vmail's GID/UID numbers.
>
> also i left maildir blank.
>
> i haven't had any luck with getting the crypted passwords to work, does
> anyone have any pointers for that? i'd rather not have unencrypted
> passwords around if possible and couldn't find documentation on that.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Hilgeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:20 PM
> Subject: [courier-users] Trouble with Courier IMAP+MySQL Auth
>
>
> Hi,
>
> HISTORY LEADING UP TO THE PROBLEM:
> I'm new to IMAP administration - I've been using QMail and its POP3 server
> for a while now (Maildir storage), and decided to try out IMAP. I already
> have a recent version of MySQL installed and running fine. I just finished
> installing Courier-IMAP 1.5.3 (just a plain ./configure, make, make check,
> su, make install - no special options). It detected MySQL and installed
> the authdaemond.mysql binary, which is good.
>
> I edited the config files (both courier's and the authmysql.rc file - or
> whatever its called) to make sure the program would have a valid MySQL
> connection. I created a database called "mail" and added the suggested
> table query straight from the bottom of the README.authmysql.html
> document, so everything is set up - tables and all. I ran authdaemond and
> it automatically selected the mysql binary and began running that
> normally.
>
> PROBLEM:
> However, I've been reading and reading but I can't find any docs that say
> anything about how to add a user to that table. I've tried adding a record
> manually by taking a logical guess at what goes where, but it won't
> authenticate. (A side note - I commented out the MD5/crypt authentication
> line in the config file, and enabled the CLEAR field so I can input
> cleartext passwords for now - until I get it all working). I want to add a
> user:
> Username: jonathan
> Password: somepass
> Maildir: /qmailboxes/jonathan/Maildir
>
> WHAT I'VE TRIED:
> so this is what I put into the database:
> id: jonathan
> crypt: <nothing>
> clear: somepass
> name: jonathan
> uid: 0
> gid: 0
> home: /qmailboxes/jonathan
> maildir: Maildir
> quota: <blank>
>
> What am I doing wrong here? Is it the UID/GID being 0 (root)?
>
>
>
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