Re: Re: Incorrect password

Ok, lets try a different approach...

Has anyone managed to get Neomail working on Fedora Core 3 and/or 
with Perl version 5.8.5 ?

Thanks,
Chris


On 1 Feb 2005 at 14:28, [email protected] wrote:

> I guess I didn't explain properly...
> 
> 1) /etc/shadow is specified correctly
> 2) checklogin.pl can read /etc/shadow just fine
> 3) suidperl is installed on the system
> 4) I have read the FAQ's and spent several hours trying to figure the
> problem out before attacking the mailing lists ;)
> 
> 
> I can run checkconfig.pl manually (ie: as a non-root user) and it
> reads and confirms the username/password, ie: if you manually type:
> 
> #./checkconfig.pl
> /etc/shadow<cr>
> username<cr>
> password<cr>
> #echo $?
> 0
> 
> If the username/password are incorrect it return '1' instead of '0' So
> checkconfig.pl is working fine.
> 
> The trouble is that Perl gets the return value '13' no matter what
> username/password is entered. I know this because I have added a
> couple of extra "writelog()" lines in neomail.pl so I can see the
> variables at various stages in the login() subroutine.
> 
> Regards,
> Chris
> 
> 
> -----8< snip
> 
> 
> >From FAQ Official of Neomail:
> 
> 
>  Q. I got NeoMail installed OK, but I can"t login! No
>  matter what I type I
>     get the invalid password message.  Also, my Apache
>  error_log shows reads on
>     a closed filehandle, <PASSWD> and a couple uses of
>  undefined values as well.
>     What gives?
> 
>  A. This means that, for some reason, NeoMail is having
>  trouble opening the file
>     you specified as your encrypted password file
>  during setup.pl, or in the
>     $passwdfile variable if you configured NeoMail
>  manually.
> 
>     The root of this problem could be one of several
>  possibilities.  First, and
>     most commonly, is that people simply forget to
>  specify /etc/shadow as the
>     password file when using shadowed passwords.  This
>  generally happens on
>     manual installs only, as setup.pl does some
>  checking to make sure that
>     there are encrypted passwords in whatever file it
>  defaults to.
> 
>     The next possibility is that while the program
>  knows where your passwords
>     are stored, it cannot open the file to read them,
>  because it has
>     insufficient permissions.  Checklogin.pl should
>  generally run suid root,
>     unless you choose a manual install and used a file
>  that doesn"t require root
>     permissions to be read for your encrypted
>  passwords.
> 
>     If this isn"t the case, another likely possibility
>  is that while you have
>     the Perl interpreter on your system, you don"t have
>  the additional wrapper
>     program included in most Perl distributions,
>  suidperl.  This should
>     generally exist in the same directory as perl does,
>  and be setuid root.
>     When perl opens a setuid script, it sees the setuid
>  bit, and since most
>     operating systems don"t allow scripts to run
>  setuid, it calls the suidperl
>     executable to run the script with root permissions.
> 
>  Greetings,
>  Miguel!
> 
>   --- info@ca... escribi=F3: 
>  > After installing Neomail on a Fedora Core 3 system
>  > it seems to have a 
>  > problem checking users passwords returning the
>  > error:
>  > 
>  > Sorry, the password you entered was incorrect!
>  > Please go back and try again
>  > 
>  > After doing some digging, it looks like the
>  > checklogin.pl program is 
>  > returning the value 13 no matter what
>  > username/password combination 
>  > you enter.
>  > 
>  > Run checklogin.pl manually from the command line and
>  > it works just 
>  > find, ie: "echo $?" returns "0" when correct
>  > username/password 
>  > entered and "1" when incorrect details entered.
>  > 
>  > For some reason perl is always seeing the return
>  > value as 13
>  > 
>  > Anyone any idea"s ?
>  > 
>  > Thanks,
>  > Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 
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