5 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-usersRe: [courier-users] chdir: permission...
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Kevin MurphyFeb 18, 2007 11:40 am 
Sam VarshavchikFeb 18, 2007 3:16 pm 
Kevin MurphyFeb 18, 2007 5:47 pm 
Sam VarshavchikFeb 18, 2007 6:13 pm 
Kevin MurphyFeb 18, 2007 6:25 pm 
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Subject:Re: [courier-users] chdir: permission denied with MySQL Auth backendActions...
From:Kevin Murphy (lis@donoteat.us)
Date:Feb 18, 2007 5:47:53 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

Already did, here's the output:

[root@mountaineer ~]# authtest kevin@<domain name filtered> <password filtered> Authentication succeeded.

Authenticated: kevin@<domain name filtered> (uid 503, gid 503) Home Directory: /home/mail/<domain name filtered>/kevin Maildir: (none) Quota: (none) Encrypted Password: (none) Cleartext Password: <password filtered> Options: (none)

On Feb 18, 2007, at 6:17 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

Kevin Murphy writes:

Hello, I built and installed courier 0.54.2 RPMs on Fedora Core 6. I then setup the authentication system to use MySQL, and setup a virtual domain with the maildirs living in /home/mail/[domain.com]/ [username] I created a courier user (503) and a courier group (503), chowned the entire /home/mail structure to courier:courier. I also configured the record in the passwd table for uid=503 and gid=503. Despite all of this, when I attempt to login to any of these accounts, I get the following entries in the log: Feb 18 14:08:27 mountaineer imapd: Connection, ip= [::ffff:<filtered IP address>] Feb 18 14:08:31 mountaineer imapd: kevin@<domain name filtered>: chdir(/home/mail/<filtered domain name>/kevin) failed!! Feb 18 14:08:31 mountaineer imapd: error: Permission denied Feb 18 14:08:31 mountaineer imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=kevin@<filtered domain name>, ip=[::ffff:<filtered IP address>] Feb 18 14:08:31 mountaineer imapd: authentication error: Permission denied I have filtered out the IP address and domain, but rest assured that I have verified that the paths exist as configured, and the permissions are appropriate. What on earth could I be missing?

You're missing any indication that your authentication database is set up correctly. You paraphrased how you think you've set up your mysql-based authentication, but you did not post your actual authentication data. There's a likely disconnect between what you think has happened, and what actually happened.

Use the authtest utility in the courier-authlib package to verify that your authentication configuration is set up properly.