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Subject:RE: [courier-users] failed authenticationActions...
From:Nancy Pettigrew (nan@bigfishmail.com)
Date:Aug 1, 2000 2:52:53 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

Unfortunately, the system isn't busy - it's pretty much empty. I've got the code running on a Sun box, and have just been trying to compile it and get it running on a new Linux box.

-----Original Message----- From: cour@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:cour@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Sam Varshavchik Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 2:46 PM To: cour@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [courier-users] failed authentication

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Nancy Pettigrew wrote:

i've got courier imap .36b up and running with mysql authentication enabled, but i'm getting failed authentications.

i've run authtest in gdb to try and pinpoint the place where it's croaking...seems to be in authdaemon.auth_daemon, it's bombing out with errno=EACCES, but i don't know _what_ the permission problem is on. i'm

That's just a generic error code used to return an authentication failure.

running the program as root, triple checked the username/passwords for the database, and the authdaemon processes hve been kicked off.

any ideas?

environment: redhat 6.2, kernel 2.2.16

How busy is the system? Sounds like you're using authdaemon. If your system is loaded, sporadic authentication failures usually indicate the need for more authdaemons, or more system resources.