[imp] IMP/Horde Authentication Problem

[Fabio Nunes]

> I'm curious -- what Apache & PHP are you using? 

Hi Jaz,

I'm using default OpenBSD 3.7 apache and PHP 5 (package).
The apache is chrooted, this was the problem.

I found in horde newsgroup a message from Kevin Myer
explain how to debug apache in this way.

This is the original message. Thanks to Kevin.
( i don't know how to put a link to his message here,
   so i'm reproducing the entire message ok ?, sorry )

Original Message:
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I traced this out and found that the IMAP toolkit wants to lookup a
user in the password database (I think maybe a geteuid call).

Jun  3 19:50:48 diabase httpd: /etc/pwd.db: No such file or directory
Jun  3 19:50:48 diabase httpd: /etc/pwd.db: No such file or directory
Jun  3 19:50:48 diabase httpd: IMAP toolkit crash: Unable to look up 
user name
Jun  3 19:50:48 diabase httpd: IMAP toolkit crash: Unable to look up 
user name
Jun  3 19:50:48 diabase httpd: IMAP toolkit crash: Unable to look up 
user name

Discovery of this was facilitated by:

1)  Running apache in single process mode (httpd -X)
2)  run ktrace on the single process of httpd (ktrace -p <httpd pid>)
3)  kdump the ktrace.out file and review that (kdump)
4)  Notice the returns of some of the system calls (RET   connect -1
     errno 2 No such file or directory)

So to solve the problem:

mkdir /var/www/etc
cp /etc/pwd.db /var/www/etc
cp /etc/spwd.db /var/www/etc

If you want to get more useful logging information out of Apache, start
syslogd
with another listening socket on /var/www/dev/log as well.

I modified my /etc/rc to include the following (or at least it should 
work - I
haven't rebooted yet but I did restart syslogd with the additional socket):

if [ "X${httpd_flags}" != X"NO" ]; then
         rm -f /var/www/dev/log
         syslogd_flags="${syslogd_flags} -a /var/www/dev/log"
fi

Kevin

-- Kevin M. Myer Senior Systems Administrator Lancaster-Lebanon 
Intermediate Unit 13 http://www.iu13.org
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