[horde] horde login error

[Steve Devine]

Quoting "Santhosh Kumar A" <santhoshksfeltd at yahoo.co.in>:

> Hello friend
>
> When I created a user horde and password  in centos, i made the  
> first login to the horde web mail.So i think that this may the  
> problem of user authentication.When i checked the command dovecot -n  
> it showed the following result.
> # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf
> log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log
> protocols: imap
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
> auth default:
>   debug: yes
>   passdb:
>     driver: pam
>   userdb:
>     driver: passwd
> So i think the dovecot is checking the userdb instead of mysql  
> database.Do u ave any idea??
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Steve Devine <sd at msu.edu> wrote: Quoting "Luis Felipe Marzagao" :
>
>> Have you followed this tutorial?
>>
>> http://wiki.horde.org/CentOS5InstallationNotes
>>
>> Apparently it´s not a horde issue. Can you connect to dovecot with
>> that same user by any other means (for example through a mail reader
>> client)?
>>
>> Have you configured horde to let imp handle authentication? Have you
>> configured imp/config/servers.php properly?
>>
>> Santhosh Kumar A escreveu:
>>> Pls help me.Iam anewbie trying to install horde on Centos.I have
>>> installed horde and can access the test.php.But when loging it shws
>>> some error such as    Trying protocol imap/notls, Port 143:  ERROR
>>> - The server returned the following error message: Authentication
>>> failed.Authentication failed.Authentication failed.Too many login
>>> failures
>>>
>>>   when i checked the mail log, it says
>>> Jan  9 10:38:57 mail dovecot: auth(default):
>>> pam(horde,::ffff:127.0.0.1): lookup service=dovecot
>>> Jan  9 10:38:59 mail dovecot: auth(default):
>>> pam(horde,::ffff:127.0.0.1): pam_authenticate() failed: User not
>>> known to the underlying authentication module
>>> Jan  9 10:38:59 mail dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL   3
>>>     user=horde
>>> Jan  9 10:38:59 mail dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login:
>>> user=, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:127.0.0.1,
>>> lip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, TLS
>>>
>>> Pls help me to solve this problem .Iave been working to solve this
>>> prolem for the last 4 days.Pls help me again.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>
> I dont know how it is with Dovecot but you should be able to login
> from the command line.
> Like so
> telnet localhost (or hostname.of.imap.server.) 143
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE
> THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION
> STARTTLS] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2008 Double Precision,
> Inc.  See COPYING for distribution information.
> a login testuser testpass
>
> If you can get in then you at least know the imap server is happy.
>
> Steve Devine
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What is this set to in horde/config?
$conf['auth']['params']['app'] =



Steve Devine
Email & Storage
Academic Technical Services
Michigan State University