[horde] Gettting Failed FTP Logins After Setting Up IOS ActiveSync Device

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Brent <impuser at bitrealm.com>:

> Using all the latest releases, I have setup an IOS phone using  
> ActiveSync.  After setting it up, I notice my /var/log/secure  
> filling up with failed FTP login attemps:
>
> Jun  7 08:08:04 localhost vsftpd[27746]: pam_unix(vsftpd:auth):  
> authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ftp  
> ruser=MYUSERNAME rhost=localhost.localdomain  user=MYUSERNAME
>
> I've replaced my real username with MYUSERNAME.
>
> Now, I do have gollem installed, but that works fine in Horde as  
> does ingo, which also uses ftp to upload/check the users .procmailrc  
> file.
>
> I have the phone set to:
>
> Fetch New Data:   Push  (on the IOS device)
>
>
> What's happening here?  I added another user and started getting  
> failed ftp login attemps, but it's from localhost?  I don't quite  
> understand what is causing the failed ftp logins, but it seems to be  
> clearly related to adding an ActiveSync IOS device.

It sounds like either Gollem or Ingo is being polled at some point  
during the ActiveSync request, though I can't think of where this  
would be happening - unless you are using FTP as the Horde VFS  
backend. It's coming from locahost because it's not the device  
accessing the FTP server directly, it's Horde doing it. Either way,  
I'm not sure why authentication would fail. Make sure your Horde log  
is set to DEBUG and see if there is anything interesting in there.  
Ditto if you are using a dedicated sync log file.

> ActiveSync is quite nice for the calendar and contacts, it should be  
> extended for mail too.  That way the admins don't have to setup  
> imap/smtp as a separate account on their phones.

This is already implemented for Horde 5 - along with a number of other  
additions/improvements.


-- 
mike

The Horde Project (www.horde.org)
mrubinsk at horde.org
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