[horde] horde login error

[Steve Devine]

Quoting "Steve Devine" <sd at msu.edu>:

> 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
>> Email & Storage
>> Academic Technical Services
>> Michigan State University
>>
>> 313 Computer Center
>> East Lansing, MI 48824-1042
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>
> Please dont reply to me directly. Keep it on the list.
>
> What is this set to in horde/config?
> $conf['auth']['params']['app'] =
>
Sorry it should be :
What is this parameter set to in horde/config/conf.php ?
> $conf['auth']['params']['app'] =
>
>
> Steve Devine
> Email & Storage
> Academic Technical Services
> Michigan State University
>
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Steve Devine
Email & Storage
Academic Technical Services
Michigan State University

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