If he changed the home directories to a different partition, it's likely the
home paths have changed..? This could affect /home/vpopmail (although I
don't think you'd be getting as far as you are if that was the case). You
say the MySQL tables look "OK", but did you verify the home directory listed
in the pw_dir column goes to the current home directories?
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: auth problem
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 06:16:49PM -0500, Tim Thomas wrote:
> > I inherited a Debian box with qmail and vpop and qmail admin installed.
> > Everything was running fine at one point.
> > It doesn't work now and gives this error back to the client:
> > this user has no $HOME/Maildir
> > I do know that the prior
> > admin changed the users home directories to a different partition.
> > It is using mysql for authentication.
> > and those tables look ok.
> > There is also the qmail admin package installed but the passwd for the
> > postmaster is unknown.
> > I'm considering re-compiling but wonder if perhaps there is an
> > environment variable I could set. If so for what user? qmaild ?
> > there is no source code for it on the machine.
> > Any suggestions, hints, tips & flames appreciated.
>
> more annoying details:
>
> hmmm the user exists and does have permission
> vpopmail:x:1015:1015:Virtual POP Account,,,:/web/vpopmail:/bin/bash
> drwxr-xr-x 9 vpopmail vpopmail 4096 Jun 25 20:24 vpopmail/
>
> http://vhost.remoteautomation.com/cgi-bin/qmailadmin/
>
> --
> Tim
>
