From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 8 11:13:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.hub.org (mobile.acadiau.ca [131.162.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 198AB37B424 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 11:13:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by mobile.hub.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f48IDM831261; Tue, 8 May 2001 15:13:22 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: mobile.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 15:13:22 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Dave Airlie Cc: Subject: Re: msgget() in pamsmbd for pam_smb module ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG d'oh, was gonna try the --disable-use-daemon, but never saw the non-root option :( trying now, thanks ... On Tue, 8 May 2001, Dave Airlie wrote: > > Hi, > do a ./configure --help on the pam_smb module it should have an > option allow non root or something .. /me is away from esay access and in > a hurry so sorry I can't give any more info.... > > Regards, > Dave. > > On Tue, 8 May 2001, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > > > Morning ... > > > > I'm trying to get the newest CVS of pam_smb working to > > authenticate our Cyrus IMAPd users, and have come across a problem that > > I'm not sure if easily rectifiable ... > > > > Whenever I connect and do an authenticate, I get the following > > error message generated: > > > > May 8 13:47:36 new-relay pop3d[66057]: pamsmbd : msg_snd problem > > > > Looking at the code, its generated in queue_valid.c only: > > > > ============ > > if(msgsnd(mid, (struct msgbuf *)&msg, sizeof(msg), 0) == -1) { > > syslog(LOG_AUTHPRIV | LOG_ERR, "pamsmbd : msg_snd problem"); > > return 2; > > } > > ============ > > > > Now, I've been wracking my brain over this, trying to figure out > > why it is that ftpd can authenticate no problem this way, but the cyrus > > imapd can't ... when it hit me. Cyrus IMAPd runs as the user cyrus, not > > as root ... the pamsmbd process runs as user root ... is there a > > restriction that a is preventing a non-root user from authenticating > > through the pamsmbd process? > > > > Thanks ... > > > > > > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy > > Systems Administrator @ hub.org > > primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org > > > > > > -- > David Airlie, Software Engineer > http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied@skynet.ie > pam_smb / Linux DecStation / Linux VAX / ILUG person > > > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message