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flow666
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 Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 10:27 am Post subject: qmailadmin problem |
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Hi,
Ive installed a new mailserver with te howto in Documentation, Tips and Tricks (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=171499)
I want to access the qmailadmin frontend now, but it always says "Invalid Login".
I looked into the Apache error_log and it states the following there:
[Sat Sep 18 11:32:01 2004] [error] [client 10.100.0.7] vmysql: can't read settings from /var/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.mysql, referer: http://10.100.0.108/cgi-bin/qmailadmin
I thought, the problem could be a wrong permission of that file, so i changed that to world readable for testing, but it didn't help. I found out that this file was a symbolic link to /etc/vpopmail.conf so i set that file world readable too. It didn't help either.
Google & the forum search didn't know an answer either.
Has anybody an idea?
Thanks,
flow
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Jabbas
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| Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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Hi!
You have wrong rights for qmailadmin binary in cgi-bin...
reemerge it or change it to that:
| Code: | limper cgi-bin # ls -l /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/qmailadmin
-rwsr-sr-x 1 vpopmail vpopmail 149512 pa¼ 25 00:35 /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/qmailadmin
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Suids for user, group and chown to vpopmail user and group.
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enek
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Location: Edmonton
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| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:16 am Post subject: same problem |
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I have the same problem:
| Code: | | vmysql: can't read settings from /var/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.mysql, referer: http://10.100.0.108/cgi-bin/qmailadmin |
/cgi-bin/qmailadmin
is owned by vpopmail:vpopmail and my permissions are correct.
I also tried to emerge but that didn't help either. Does anyone else know what the problem could be?
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enek
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| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:52 am Post subject: Solution |
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Here is one possible solution that works:
| Quote: | QUICK NOTE : In order to use vpopmail or qmailadmin Apache must run as user vpopmail:vpopmail. You will need to edit your /etc/apache2/conf/commonapache.conf file to read
> User vpopmail
> Group vpopmail
and then restart apache with the command /etc/init.d/apache2 restart. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
Note This is likely to remove other apache functionality which relies on apache:apache for user:group. You are warned! |
Personally I don't think this is a very good solution and would like to figure out why it isn't working correctly in the first place. I tried making all files readable by apache user but still couldn't get it to work without making apache start as vpopmail:vpopmail.
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drJeckyll
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| Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:44 am Post subject: |
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nano -w /etc/group
find vpopmail:x:89:
and change it to
vpopmail:x:89:vpopmail,apache
restart apache then ... and whoala ... |
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mephcpp
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| hi! same problem here, the above I tried and not working, permissions are fine and I set up apache to be in vpopmail group and still it's not letting me in! |
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kreep69
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| Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:05 am Post subject: |
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Check the permissions and ownership of /etc/vpopmail.conf
The file should be --
chmod 640 /etc/vpopmail.conf
chown root:vpopmail /etc/vpopmail.conf
That should fix it for you, if it does not also check /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw as that program should be --
-rws--x--x root:vpopmail vchkpw
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cowgod
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| Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:24 am Post subject: |
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i am having this same problem. help please!
here's all my relevant settings:
| Code: | # ls -l /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin
-rwx--x--x 1 vpopmail vpopmail 145752 Jan 27 14:25 qmailadmin
# ls -l /etc/vpopmail.conf
-rw-r----- 1 root vpopmail 635 Jan 31 2008 /etc/vpopmail.conf
# ls -l /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw
-rws--x--x 1 root vpopmail 83368 Jan 31 2008 /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw
# cat /etc/group | grep vpopmail
vpopmail:x:89:vpopmail,apache
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apache vhost config:
| Code: | <VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mydomain.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/localhost/htdocs"
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/var/www/localhost/htdocs">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/www/localhost/cgi-bin">
Options +ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost> |
when i try to login, i get the following in the apache error_log:
| Code: | [Sun Jan 27 17:14:42 2008] [error] [client x.x.x.x] mod_mime_magic: can't read `/var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/qmailadmin'
[Sun Jan 27 17:14:51 2008] [error] [client x.x.x.x] mod_mime_magic: can't read `/var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/qmailadmin', referer: http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/qmailadmin |
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cowgod
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| Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:27 am Post subject: |
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i cannot this thing to work right. i simply do not understand how qmailadmin could possibly work straight out of the box.
if i change the "User" to "vpopmail" in my httpd.conf, everything works properly. however, i certainly don't want to run my whole web server as the vpopmail user.
instead, i have installed suexec and created a different virtual host specifically for qmailadmin. i set that virtual host to run as user/group vpopmail. i changed the vpopmail uid/gid to 9999 so that it can run without giving an error about having too low of an id. after all of this, i'm back at square one with an "Invalid Login" whenever i try to login.
why isn't this working? am i totally missing something obvious? |
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Crymson
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| Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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I just wanted to say thanks for this thread - somehow my permissions got all screwed on my qmailadmin. Changing the owner to vpopmail:vpopmail and chmod 4755 on the qmailadmin file fixed the problems.
So, thanks to the submitters above!
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dmittner
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 8:26 am Post subject: |
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Ressurrecting something of an old thread but THANK YOU.
I was tweaking permissions, resetting passwords a dozen times, restarting every service I could think might matter.... except Apache. Restarted that and now it's working. The insanity can finally end... |
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ycUygB1
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Honestly, this is just way too hard. There are no useful error messages and guidance about what could be wrong. By randomly making changes to my system, all of which are clearly wrong, I am just introducing tons of security holes.
All of the features of qmailadmin are available at the command line from the directory /var/vpopmail/bin. Just execute the relevant commands there. |
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