please help this newbie get started

[Shawn Pringle]

If you want things done as a disabled user use su with the -c switch.   For
example to simulate a cgi request from outside I do:

su www-data -c /cgi-bin/getnewimages.cgi

 the www-data user is the user that runs scripts. ..

El 05/02/2017 05:58, "Christian Kivalo" <ml+dovecot at valo.at> escribió:

>
>
> Am 5. Februar 2017 06:55:34 MEZ schrieb drbobllc at yahoo.com:
> >Hi, everyone,
> >1. As advised in Debugging Authentication, I turned on auth_debug and
> >auth_debug_passwords, and now in the mail log I get an additional
> >message:
> >dovecot: auth: passwd(xxx,xxx,<40AjQMFHSLVLGJAC>): invalid password
> >field '*'
> >Of course neither the password I tried nor the actual password was '*'.
> >That's what's in /etc/passwd, but dovecot isn't just using that, is it?
> The '*' in passwd password field stands for login disabled. See man 5
> passwd or http://www.manpages.info/freebsd/passwd.5.html
>
>
> >2. In the new debug log, I get:
> >dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory:
> >/usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth
> >dovecot: auth: Debug: Read auth token secret from
> >/var/run/dovecot/auth-token-secret.dat
> >dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=3183)
> >dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: AUTH    1    PLAIN    service=pop3
> >session=RFp0lMFHHotLGJAC    lip=xxx    rip=xxx    lport=110
> >rport=35614
> >dovecot: auth: Debug: client passdb out: CONT    1
> >dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: CONT<hidden>
> >dovecot: auth: Debug: passwd(xxx,xxx,<RFp0lMFHHotLGJAC>): lookup
> >dovecot: auth: Debug: client passdb out: FAIL    1    user=xxx
> >user_disabled
> >
> >So it's something with passdb?
> >
> >3. In TestPop3Installation I can't get past the "Check that it's
> >allowing remote logins" section. telnet gives me an error:
> >
> >-ERR [AUTH] Authentication failed.
> >
> >
> >which I expect, because I have telnet turned off. Does that mean I
> >can't use plaintext authentication?
> This is probably because the users login is disabled.
>
> In one oft your provided log outputs you are trying to login as user
> 'www'. Why? The webserver user has the login normaly disabled.
>
> --
> Christian Kivalo
>
> >Thanks,
> >Bob
> >
> >On Saturday, February 4, 2017 8:37 AM, "drbobllc at yahoo.com"
> ><drbobllc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >And thanks for the link to that Troubleshooting section. I didn't know
> >that was there and will take a look at it now.
> >
>