[horde] Authentication issues

[Steven Swarts]

On 23/07/2013 2:45 PM, Ralf Lang wrote:
> Please keep discussions on the list.
> See below.
>
> On 23.07.2013 08:40, Steven Swarts wrote:
>> On 23/07/2013 2:33 PM, Ralf Lang wrote:
>>> On 23.07.2013 08:05, Steven Swarts wrote:
>>>> G'day guys,
>>>>
>>>> I have a Debian system with Horde 5.1.2 (latest PEAR) and ISPConfig 3
>>>> installed.
>>>> Just recently I tried to log in with another user (mine (admin) works
>>>> fine) and apache error log shows "user not authenticated..." plus the
>>>> screen goes white, nothing shown, no error or what not just white.
>>>> I checked my authentication (after the log in expired - otherwise no
>>>> refresh helps or clearing browser cache, etc) and its set to:
>>>>
>>>> $conf[auth][driver] - Let a Horde application handle authentication
>>>> $conf[auth][params][app] - IMP
>>>>
>>>> Now what I always thought was that it would authenticate based on the
>>>> email, but can someone please explain this to me and hopefully help me
>>>> out here?
>>>>
>>>> */Regards,/*
>>>>
>>>> */Steven Swarts/*
>>>>
>>>>
>>> If you get a whitescreen, check your php log (usually the apache error
>>> log) for messages.
>>>
>> This is all it says...
>>
>> [Tue Jul 23 14:39:31 2013] [error] [client 110.143.59.210] PHP Fatal
>> error:  Uncaught exception 'Horde_Exception_PushApp' with message 'User
>> john at example.com.au is not authorized for Horde.' in
>> /usr/share/php/Horde/Registry.php:1517\nStack trace:\n#0
>> /usr/share/php/Horde/Registry.php(1171):
>> Horde_Registry->pushApp('horde', Array)\n#1
>> /usr/share/php/Horde/Registry.php(2089):
>> Horde_Registry->callAppMethod('horde', 'logout')\n#2
>> /usr/share/php/Horde/ErrorHandler.php(35):
>> Horde_Registry->clearAuthApp('horde')\n#3 [internal function]:
>> Horde_ErrorHandler::fatal(Object(Horde_Exception_AuthenticationFailure))\n#4
>> {main}\n  thrown in /usr/share/php/Horde/Registry.php on line 1517
>>
>> Can I make it more verbose?
> Your user name "admin" works.
> Did you configure imp/config/backends.local.php yet? Is hordeauth set to
> true or to "full" ?
The admin account is my email address and yes it works fine

Surprisingly I don't have a imp/config/backends.local.php yet. How do I 
go about configuring that? Why would the admin account work if it can't 
authenticate due to no local backends?