RE: [SM-USERS] A newbie needs help

[Marvin P. <mar...@bi...>]

On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 10:36, p dont think wrote:
> The upshot is.... set $debug = 0;
> 
> 
> > Sir,
> 
> No need for the formalities.  We're a lot friendlier than that around
> here - my tone in my last email may have been a little harsh, but I was
> frustrated...  and again I *DID* respond to you, asking you four
> specific questions about things you didn't include in your email -- it
> is *you* who seems to have missed that post.  Here it is again, although
> I will take a stab in the dark at what is wrong below that...
> 
> Please tell me:
> 
>   1. what is the username you want to be able to enter on the login page
> -- "jassa" or "marvin"?

Yes, "jassa" only.  I want that the login will be easier for the users
to remember and not entering the whole e-mail address that they have
like "ja...@bi...".  But the truth is, AFAIK, the complete virtual
user name of "jassa" is "ja...@bi...", under the system user
"bintut".

>   2. you said "ja...@bi... is a vitual user for VMailMgr" -- sorry
> for my ignorance (never used qmail/vmailmgr), but does vmailmgr remap
> that for you?  that is, where does your SM send its logins - to vmailmgr
> or directly to imap?  If you need to have your login remapped
> automatically, you might need to use the sendmail style virtual user
> table, but I need to get a better feel for how your setup works before I
> shoot my mouth off... ;>

Okay, what I did was I *add* "authvmailmgr" before "authdaemon" of my
AUTHMODULES entry of my /etc/courier/imapd configuration file. 
"authvmailmgr" is the authentication command for VMailMgr for all the
virtual users that it has.

- - - < s n i p > - - -
AUTHMODULES="authvmailmgr authdaemon"
- - - < s n i p > - - -

Also, I *add* "authvmailmgr" before from the other values that I have in
my "authmodulelist" of my /etc/courier/authdaemonrc configuration file.

- - - < s n i p > - - -
authmodulelist="authvmailmgr authcustom authcram authuserdb authldap
authpgsql authmysql authpam"
- - - < s n i p > - - -

>   3. (related to number 2) what is the target username that vlogin
> should be constructing?  marvin.bir.gov.ph and not ja...@bi...?

The target username should be "ja...@bi..." because
"marvin.bir.gov.ph" is the FQDN of my machine.

What do you mean of "sendmail style virtual user table"?  I'm sorry, I
don't know that much with the other MTAs even with qmail because I'm
really a newbie and I'm not a Systems Administrator of our office.

>   4. what is the URL that you will use to get to your login page (feel
> free to use an example if you don't want to post real information)

For now in this test machine that I'm working on is
"http://www.bir.gov.ph/mail/src/login.php".  But I think it would be
nice if we will deploy this for production already, I suggest that the
complete URL will be "http://mail.bir.gov.ph/".

> > I created a system user named "bintut" who now owns the two virtual
> > users that I created namely "ja...@bi..." and "gi...@bi...".
> 
> Not sure what bintut has to do with it.  But I assume you currently can
> log in with a username of "ja...@bi... " or "gi...@bi... ", and
> would rather log in as "jassa " or "gigi ", right??

Yes, you're right.

As I've said, I can login using "ja...@bi..." but with "jassa"
only, I can't.

> > I extracted the vlogin-2.5.tar.gz plugin that you sent to me at
> > /var/www/html/squirrelmail-1.2.9/plugins/ directory and add it in my
> > configuration.  After that, I tried logging-in using only the username
> > without the domain and I got this error:
> 
> Did you read the readme??  Did you go through the config settings??

Yes.

> > Your IMAP login was resolved to:
> > ja...@bi...
> 
> It looks like you have the $debug set = 1.  No?  (Yes.  I confirmed this
> from your last email.)  You need to turn it off (set to zero) and if
> "ja...@bi..." is the correct login (I think you said it is), then
> you should be set.  That setting is only for debugging (thus the name)
> and is the cause of what you call an "error" (that's not an error!).  

I just set the "$debug set = 1" because I want to get the result for the
debug mode if I just enter the login name as "jassa" only.  But if it's
zero "0", an error message said that I entered an incorrect login name
or password.

I can log in if I'll enter the complete e-mail address (e.g.
ja...@bi...) but I can't if I'll just enter the username part
excluding the domain part of the e-mail address (e.g. jassa).

> > [1] ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT
> > 	Virtual Domain	- accounting.bir.gov.ph
> > 	Virtual Users	- acc...@bi... (Employee No. 1)
> > 			- acc...@bi... (Employee No. 2)
> 
> Just set $numberOfDotSections = 3 and $removeFromFront = 1

That is actually what I did, Sir.

Thank you very much, Sir.

God bless...

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MARVIN T. PASCUAL
E-mail: mar...@bi...
Tel. No. (+632) 9252053
Mobile No. +639193141254
Yahoo! ID: bintut