Authentication Problem for SquirrelMail

JOHN MATHEW · External Since: Jul 06, 2007 Posts: 5

i am trying to setup webmail for my mail server.What i have done is
enabled IMAP from dovecot and opened up port for imap,Installed
squirrel mail.After that when i try to login as root it's giveing this
error message.

ERROR:
ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.

please help to resolve this authentication problem.

Thanks
Melbin Mathew

Bill Marcum · External Since: Dec 18, 2006 Posts: 293

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:44:54 -0700, JOHN MATHEW
<mathew.melbin.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> i am trying to setup webmail for my mail server.What i have done is
> enabled IMAP from dovecot and opened up port for imap,Installed
> squirrel mail.After that when i try to login as root it's giveing this
> error message.
>
> ERROR:
> ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.
>
> please help to resolve this authentication problem.
>
Does it work when you login as any other user? If so, edit /etc/aliases
to send root's mail to another user.

--
Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.
-- David Letterman

JOHN MATHEW · External Since: Jul 06, 2007 Posts: 5

On Jul 29, 6:04 pm, Bill Marcum <marcumb... DeleteThis @bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:44:54 -0700, JOHN MATHEW <mathew.mel... DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > i am trying to setup webmail for my mail server.What i have done is
> > enabled IMAP from dovecot and opened up port for imap,Installed
> > squirrel mail.After that when i try to login as root it's giveing this
> > error message.
>
> > ERROR:
> > ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.
>
> > please help to resolve this authentication problem.
>
> Does it work when you login as any other user? If so, edit /etc/aliases
> to send root's mail to another user.
>
> --
> Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.
> -- David Letterman

hi thanks a lot..
i checked for other users..its working fine for other users.but why
it's not working for root.

is it blocking root or any security reason??

Thank you
Melbin Mathew

Ogre · External Since: Jun 04, 2007 Posts: 20

JOHN MATHEW wrote:
> i am trying to setup webmail for my mail server.What i have done is
> enabled IMAP from dovecot and opened up port for imap,Installed
> squirrel mail.After that when i try to login as root it's giveing this
> error message.
>
> ERROR:
> ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.
>
> please help to resolve this authentication problem.

I've seen the exact same error message when the IMAP directory either
does not exist or the permissions deny access to that directory.

--
Ogre

Ogre · External Since: Jun 04, 2007 Posts: 20

JOHN MATHEW wrote:
> On Jul 29, 6:04 pm, Bill Marcum <marcumb....TakeThisOut@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:44:54 -0700, JOHN MATHEW <mathew.mel....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> i am trying to setup webmail for my mail server.What i have done is
>>> enabled IMAP from dovecot and opened up port for imap,Installed
>>> squirrel mail.After that when i try to login as root it's giveing this
>>> error message.
>>> ERROR:
>>> ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.
>>> please help to resolve this authentication problem.
>> Does it work when you login as any other user? If so, edit /etc/aliases
>> to send root's mail to another user.
>>
>> --
>> Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.
>> -- David Letterman
>
> hi thanks a lot..
> i checked for other users..its working fine for other users.but why
> it's not working for root.
>
> is it blocking root or any security reason??

Probably directory permissions. You'd be better off aliasing the root
mail account to a regular user account. That should fix any
access/permission problems.

--
Ogre

JOHN MATHEW · External Since: Jul 06, 2007 Posts: 5

On Jul 31, 1:58 am, Ogre <ro....TakeThisOut@sonic.net> wrote:
> JOHN MATHEW wrote:
> > On Jul 29, 6:04 pm, Bill Marcum <marcumb....TakeThisOut@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:44:54 -0700, JOHN MATHEW <mathew.mel....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> i am trying to setup webmail for my mail server.What i have done is
> >>> enabled IMAP from dovecot and opened up port for imap,Installed
> >>> squirrel mail.After that when i try to login as root it's giveing this
> >>> error message.
> >>> ERROR:
> >>> ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.
> >>> please help to resolve this authentication problem.
> >> Does it work when you login as any other user? If so, edit /etc/aliases
> >> to send root's mail to another user.
>
> >> --
> >> Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.
> >> -- David Letterman
>
> > hi thanks a lot..
> > i checked for other users..its working fine for other users.but why
> > it's not working for root.
>
> > is it blocking root or any security reason??
>
> Probably directory permissions. You'd be better off aliasing the root
> mail account to a regular user account. That should fix any
> access/permission problems.
>
> --
> Ogre

thankyou for your kind information

aneeshep · Joined: Sep 07, 2009 Posts: 1

It is a feature of dovecot. The valid range of uid in dovecot is 500 and above. So you cannot login as root since the uid of root is 0. This denying is hard coded in dovecot binary. So it is not possible to alter this settings.

The best way to get root's mails is to set an alias .