FC4 to FC5 imapd AUTH problems

[Ryan Nelson]

Craig White wrote:

>On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 20:44 -0800, Ryan Nelson wrote:
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>>Ok so I've upgraded my box from FC4->FC5 and now I'm having problems 
>>trying to authenticate to my wu-imapd.  I get the following error after 
>>trying to login:
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>>--snip /var/log/maillog --
>>Mar 25 20:18:14 palmer imapd[12696]: imaps SSL service init from 
>>192.168.246.198
>>Mar 25 20:18:14 palmer imapd[12696]: AUTHENTICATE PLAIN failure 
>>host=[192.168.246.198]
>>--end snip--
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>>So looking at SSLBUILD for wu-imap it typical problem for this is that 
>>plain passwords itsn't enabled. I've rebuilt the imapd with SSLTYPE=unix 
>>and the problem is still there. Any thoughts?
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>>The next step would be to turn debugging on although I'm not sure how to 
>>do this via xinetd?  Or via pam if thats the problem?
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>>The only other thing that I can think that might present a problem would 
>>be that I have a self signed cert that I haven't changed after the 
>>upgrade. (Its in /usr/share/ssl/certs)
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>I would think that you need to rebuild uw-imap since the openssl
>libraries that it used when you built it likely changed and that is why
>it is breaking...the cert shouldn't matter.
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Yes I had to rebuild against the new libraries.

>I can't understand why you would use uw-imapd at this stage though.
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I use it because thats what I've used for a few years now.  I'm open to 
other options?

>Craig
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Ryan