[Cialug] Help configuring Qmail with checkpassword for SMTP auth

[Josh More]

Having run qmail for years, I strongly recommend using
http://www.qmailtoaster.com/ for installation and management.
Most of the issues like you mention just go away.

-- 
-Josh More, RHCE, CISSP
 morej@alliancetechnologies.net
 515-245-7701



On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 09:57 -0600, Claus wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I asked this question a couple days ago on the AmesFUG list but didn't 
> get any responce.  Maybe I have more luck here as I obviously still 
> haven't solved the problem.  Let me know if more info is needed.
> 
>    Claus
> 
> 
> > I'm installing a new email server and so far have done the following:
> > 
> > Downloaded and installed netqmail as described in LifeWithQmail and added
> > the netqmail-1.05-tls-smtpauth-20041111.patch from
> > http://shupp.org/smtp-auth-tls.
> > 
> > Sending through the SMTP server works in plain and in TLS mode.  Now I'm
> > trying to add checkpassword from http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd.html to enable
> > authentication for SMTP.  The install and the following test worked without
> > a flaw:
> > 
> > # /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup blah /bin/checkpassword pwd
> > +OK <... at blah>
> > user Frodo
> > +OK
> > pass Friend
> > 
> > The problem is to integrate the checkpassword with qmail-smtpd.  I modified
> > the /service/qmail-smtpd/run file to the following but still don't have any
> > success logging in.  I get asked for the password but the authentication
> > seems to fail.
> > 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > 
> > QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild`
> > NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
> > MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming`
> > LOCAL=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/me`
> > 
> > if [ -z "$QMAILDUID" -o -z "$NOFILESGID" -o -z "$MAXSMTPD" -o -z "$LOCAL" ];
> > then
> >     echo QMAILDUID, NOFILESGID, MAXSMTPD, or LOCAL is unset in
> >     echo /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run
> >     exit 1
> > fi
> > 
> > if [ ! -f /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts ]; then
> >     echo "No /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts!"
> >     echo "Refusing to start SMTP listener because it'll create an open
> > relay"
> >     exit 1
> > fi
> > 
> > exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \
> >     /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l "$LOCAL" -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c
> > "$MAXSMTPD" \
> >         -u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
> > "$LOCAL" /bin/checkpassword /usr/bin/true 2>&1
> > 
> > My guess is that somehow this startup script is incorrect but I really don't
> > have a clue as I haven't found any useful messages/logs/google-postings and
> > I'm looking at it for a full day now.  
> > 
> > Anybody got something like this working or has a clue what could be wrong?
> > 
> >   Claus
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