Re: cyrus/pam tutorial?

From: Vincent Stoessel (no email)
Date: Mon Oct 01 2001 - 17:59:11 EDT


yeah ,killed and started master again.
here is the file wc reports 3 lines. My email may have broken it up
though

[root at web pam.d]# cat imap
auth optional pam_mysql.so user=cyr host=securedb passwdcolumn=Password crypt=2
auth required pam_warn.so
account required pam_mysql.so user=cyr host=securedb passwdcolumn=Password crypt=2

Nick Ustinov wrote:

> No, should be fine. Did you restart master after making changes in
> imapd.conf? Did you enable #define DEBUG in pam_mysql? What is exactly in
> your /etc/pam.d/imap file?
>
> Nick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vincent Stoessel [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 00:15
> To: Nick Ustinov
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: cyrus/pam tutorial?
>
>
> Changed but still no mysql connection. :-(
>
>
> I compiled cyrus-imapd-2.0.16 with these flags:
>
> ./configure --with-auth=unix --without-krb --with-perl=/usr/bin/perl
>
> and cyrus-sasl-1.5.24 with :
>
>
> ./configure --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl --enable-netscapehack
> --with-sasl=/usr/local --with-pam --disable-krb4
> --disable-gssapi --disable-cram
> --disable-digest
>
>
>
>
>
> should I have included anything else
>
> Nick Ustinov wrote:
>
>
>>it should be sasl_pwcheck_method, not sasl_passwd_check
>>
>>Nick
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Vincent Stoessel [mailto:]
>>Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 23:47
>>Cc:
>>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:]
>>>Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 22:46
>>>To: Nick Ustinov
>>>Cc:
>>>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:]
>>>>Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 21:40
>>>>To:
>>>>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?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>

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