The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

If the version you are installing is a 4.0.a5, then your are facing a 
known bug : an auth.conf file is missing. Therefore Sympa does not try 
native authentication. You should copy the attached default auth.conf 
file in your /home/sympa/etc/ directory.

Daniel Bentley wrote:

> Although I have been managing mailing lists via Sympa for some time now, a 
> server re-install has led me to a re-install of Sympa.  The previous 
> installation (3.2.1) was done by the former administrator, who installed 
> the old Sympa directories to the four corners of the server.
>
> I've gotten it to the point that the old lists work (including those 
> polling info. from MySQL), and the web interface comes up with the default 
> templates.  After trying to (unsuccessfully) apply the old templates to 
> the new configuration, I figured it would be faster to log in and see if 
> the administration interface had a feature to configure templates via the 
> web interface.
>
> The problem: I can't log in.
>
> I've used the 'Send me a password' function, and the resulting e-mail 
> shows both username and password correctly, according to the old 
> configuration.  Trying to use this username/password combination however, 
> results in a 'Provided password is incorrect     login: action failed' 
> message.  There are no odd error messages in either syslog or web server 
> logs that would point to a permissions error.
>
> Where should I look from this point?  I find it odd that the 'Send me a 
> password' works correctly, but the actual login does not...
>  
--
Olivier Salaun
Comite Reseau des Universites

## Here is the default auth.conf
## It defines the authentication backends used by Sympa

#generic_sso
#        service_name       InQueue Federation
#        service_id         inqueue
#        http_header_prefix HTTP_SHIB
#        email_http_header  HTTP_SHIB_EP_AFFILIATION

#cas
#       base_url                        https://yourhost.yourdomain:8443
#       auth_service_name               Your Domain
#       ldap_host                       ldap.yourdomain:389
#       ldap_get_email_by_uid_filter    (uid=[uid])
#       ldap_timeout                    7
#       ldap_suffix                     dc=yourdomain,dc=fr
#       ldap_scope                      sub
#       ldap_email_attribute            mail


#ldap
#        host                            
ldap1.yourdomain:392,ldap2.yourdomain:392
#        timeout                         20
#        suffix                          dc=yourOrg,dc=fr
#        get_dn_by_uid_filter            (uid=[sender])
#        get_dn_by_email                 (mail=[sender])
#        email_attribute                 mail
#        scope                           sub


user_table
        regexp                 .*