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

[mrubinsk at horde.org]

Sigh. Gotta love mobile device auto complete...

mrubinsk at horde.org wrote:

Quoting 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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