Is this a domain owned by vpopmail or a different user?
What is the domain?
What are the contents of the assign file for the domain?
What is the real path to the vpasswd file?
who owns the vpasswd and vpasswd.cdb files?
Ken
On Mon, 2001-10-08 at 10:53, Nathan J . Mehl wrote:
>
> Due to an unexpected system crash, I ended up making a somewhat
> hurried migration from vpopmail 4.9.8 and sqwebmail 0.99 on a solaris
> 2.6 system to vpopmail 5.0 and sqwebmail 3.0 on a solaris 8 box.
>
> Mail delivery and sqwebmail work perfectly, but strangely, vchkpw
> itself (and thus, pop3 access) is broken. Any user attempting to
> authenticate through vchkpw is denied with a "vpopmail user not found"
> error:
>
> Oct 6 19:22:52 bigtime vpopmail[3256]: [ID 436289 mail.notice] vchkpw: vpopmail
>user not found velcro@سل:127.0.0.1
> Oct 6 19:58:55 bigtime vpopmail[3602]: [ID 969420 mail.notice] vchkpw: vpopmail
>user not found velcro@cdb:127.0.0.1
> Oct 6 20:00:35 bigtime vpopmail[3628]: [ID 436289 mail.notice] vchkpw: vpopmail
>user not found velcro@سل:127.0.0.1
>
> (The "cdb" entry in the second line was me trying to manually force
> vchkpw to regenerate the cdb datafile.)
>
> If I truss the vchkpw process itself, I find the following very odd
> section:
>
> 3628: open("/var/qmail/users/cdb", O_RDONLY) = 3
> 3628: lseek(3, 1264, SEEK_SET) = 1264
> 3628: read(3, "C218\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8
> 3628: llseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 1272
> 3628: close(3) = 0
> 3628: getpid() = 3628 [3626]
> 3628: open("<FF>:/vpasswd.cdb", O_RDONLY) Err#2 ENOENT
> 3628: open("<FF>:/.vpasswd.lock", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) Err#2 ENOENT
> 3628: fstat(-1, 0xFFBEEE10) Err#9 EBADF
>
> It _looks_ like vchkpw isn't aware of what the proper path to the
> vpasswd cdb file is, but I can't quite understand why that would be,
> since all of the settings look to be in order:
>
> vpopmail 5.0
> Current settings
> ---------------------------------------
>
> vpopmail directory = /project/vpopmail
> uid = 7800
> gid = 10001
> ip alias = OFF --enable-ip-alias-domains=n (default)
> address extentions = ON --enable-qmail-ext=y
> roaming users = ON --enable-roaming-users=y
> tcpserver file = /etc/tcp.smtp
> open_smtp file = /project/vpopmail/etc/open-smtp
> user quota = OFF --enable-hardquota=n default
> table optimization = many domains --enable-many-domains=y default
> auth module = cdb default
> system passwords = OFF --enable-passwd=n default
> file locking = ON --enable-file-locking=y default
> file sync = ON --enable-file-sync=y default
> auth logging = OFF --enable-auth-logging=n default
> mysql logging = OFF --enable-mysql-logging=n default
> mysql clear passwd = OFF --enable-clear-passwd=n default
> valias processing = OFF --enable-valias=n
> pop syslog = show only failure attempts
> --enable-logging=e default
> default domain = --enable-default-domain=
> auth inc = -Icdb
> auth lib =
>
> Any clues that anybody could offer would be most appreciated.
>
> -n
>
>
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