Re: [courier-users] authdaemon - Permission denied

[Alessandro V. <ve...@ta...>]

On 22/Nov/11 10:51, Benjamin Meier wrote:
> # debug.log:
> Nov 22 09:40:31 mars courieresmtpd: started,ip=[::1]
> Nov 22 09:41:11 mars courieresmtpd: authdaemon: s_connect() failed:
> Permission denied
> Nov 22 09:41:11 mars courieresmtpd:
> error,relay=::1,from=<nod...@so...>,to=<tes...@ma...arfleet.zz>: 450 Service temporarily unavailable.
> 
> 
> # --- authtest testuser
> Authentication succeeded.
>      Authenticated: testuser  (system username: testuser)

It seems the user who run authtest has enough permission to read
authdaemon's socket than the "daemon" user running courieresmtpd.

> # --- authtest tes...@ma...arfleet.zz
> # Comment: Exactly the same with `authtest testuser@mars`
> Authentication FAILED: Operation not permitted

Courier has to know whether "mars.starfleet.zz" or "mars" are locally
hosted.  See http://www.courier-mta.org/install.html#locals

hth
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