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

[mrubinsk at horde.org]

Very strange.  That log output occurs at the very end of a ping  
request. The only thing going on there is some data is being saved to  
the database. This runs completely within the scope of the ActiveSync  
code. No: death what would trigger a hit again St the ftp server.

Brent <impuser at bitrealm.com> wrote:

Quoting Brent <impuser at bitrealm.com>> Quoting Michael J Rubinsky  
<mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>> 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.
> Ok, looking at the ActiveSync log for the device, each ftp log deny lines
> up with the following entries in the active sync log for the individual
> device:
>
> 2012-06-07T10:15:50-07:00 INFO: [OBFUSCATEDAPPLEID] Sending response  
> for PING.
> 2012-06-07T10:15:50-07:00 DEBUG: O  <Ping:Ping>
> 2012-06-07T10:15:50-07:00 DEBUG: O   <Ping:Status>
> 2012-06-07T10:15:50-07:00 DEBUG: O    1
> 2012-06-07T10:15:50-07:00 DEBUG: O   <Ping:Status/>
> 2012-06-07T10:15:50-07:00 DEBUG: O  <Ping:Ping/>
> 2012-06-07T10:15:50-07:00 DEBUG: Saving PING state:
> a:2:{s:8:"lifetime";s:3:"960";s:11:"collections";a:2:{s:8:"Calendar";a:2:{s:2:"id";s:8:"Calendar";s:5:"class";s:8:"Calendar";}s:8:"Contacts";a:3:{s:2:"id";s:8:"Contacts";s:5:"class";s:8:"Contacts";s:7:"synckey";s:15:"OBFUSCATEDAPPLEID";}}}
> 2012-06-07T10:15:51-07:00 INFO: User MYUSERNAME logged off
>
> Horde VFS is set to "SQL Database"
>
> For DataTree system, I notice I have it set to "none" in Horde, if that
> makes any difference.
>
> Every time there is a /var/log/secure failed ftp login, there is a
> matching "Saving PING state" event for the device.  I can't figure out the
> correlationbetween ActiveSync and FTP.
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