RE: Authentication Failure :-(

If you used maildirmake, you shouldn't have needed to chown 
the individual subdirectories... At least I didn't, though it 
may have been in my script. I appologize, I've yet to grab 
more morning coffee :)

Try a ps -e, and tell me (the list) if everything that should 
be, is in fact running. 

I too followed the "Life with Qmail" doc, and had only one 
minor hitch, which was easily corrected. Have you ran:

qmail-pw2u </etc/passwd >/var/qmail/users/assign

*AND*

qmail-newu

????? For those of you following along, I've got a really 
small script to help with installation- just need to know 
where to send it. It ls's /home and nabs the user names and 
passes them off to maildirmake. Its so small in fact, that 
I'd rather just see it included in "Life with Qmail". I 
recently had the misfoutune of setting up a RedHat boxen (<- 
that's the unfortunate bit, seems companies aren't receptive 
to distros with 'Slack' in their name) running Qmail and 
didn't feel like running maildirmake for all 158 users. So, I 
ended up with a script to do it for me.

***HOLD UP***
Caffiene is kicking in as I write this. You specifically 
state that you created directoried in /home using 
maildirmake... You *THEN* addeed the users? Doesn't Debian's 
'adduser' command create home directories for the users? The 
Maildir directories should be under each user, I.E.- 
/home/Linus/Maildir 

I could be totally off base here, and I am newer to Qmail, 
but shouldn't users be added before Maildir make does its thing?

-Micah


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil David J. Roberts [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 4:40 PM
> To: Mailing List Qmail Password
> Subject: ERR: Authentication Failure :-(
> 
> 
> Hiya !
> 
> I was wondering if someone would kindly give me some
> guidelines to solve a minor problem? I created directories in 
> /home usind "maildirmake name", followed by doing a chown 
> name.name on cur/, tmp/ and new/. The users were then addes 
> in passwd using the adduser command (debian linux). Anyway, 
> the problem is, that I telnet to port 110, send my user and 
> pass information, and it gives me an authentication failure. 
> Unfortunatly my logs for qmail-pop3d don't tell anything. I 
> used the Life With Qmail manual to install everything from 
> scratch, and maybe a pointer to the problem can be that 
> qmail-smtpd can't find the mailboxes :-( Ugh... Hewp Pwease ?
> 
> Thx in advance, Neil
>