Password Change through Webmail/Horde not possible

[Porthos]

Hello!


A password change of a Email POP account through Plesk is possible (We use Plesk 7.5.1 with Suse Linux), but if anybody tries to change his password through Webmail / Horde he gets the following English error:

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to localhost:106 in /home/httpd/vhosts/webmail/horde/passwd/lib/Driver/poppassd.php on line 34
Failure in changing password : Connection refused

and with the German version this error:

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to localhost:106 in /home/httpd/vhosts/webmail/horde/passwd/lib/Driver/poppassd.php on line 34
Fehler  Fehler beim Ändern des Passworts : Verbindungsaufbau abgelehnt

Does anybody know how to solve this error?

 

[tpujals]

in the case of this user do they have plesk access? I think if they have control panel access they cannot change their PW thru plesk. Just disable control panel access for this user.

I tested my horde and it changed the pw just fine. My user does not have control panel access though.

 

[Porthos]

Thank you for your quick answer, but I tested both. I both cases - with and without control panel access to Plesk - I get this error.

A password change is in both scenarios only over Plesk possible and in both cases not through Webmail / Horde.

 

[murali.r]

First of all make sure that popassd service is working fine in the server. Webmail uses this service for changing passsword.

In the file /home/httpd/vhosts/webmail/horde/passwd//config/backends.php
change localhost with the server IP in the serction.
$backends['poppassd'] = array(
'name' => 'Example poppassd server',
'preferred' => '',
'password policy' => array(),
'driver' => 'poppassd',
'params' => array(
'host' => 'localhost', ===> change localhost to server IP
'port' => 106
)

It should work

Regards,
Murali

 

[Porthos]

Thank you, but I get same error message. Of course now the error message shows my IP-Address instead of 'localhost'.

Any other ideas?

 

[Phil@]

Do you run any Firewall? If yes check if you have opened port 106.

 

[Porthos]

I use only the Firewall-functions of Plesk and I tried to open Port 106 explicit, but unfortunatly this does not solve the problem, too.

 

[vishnu]

What does the /tmp/horde.log say ?

What is the result of "telnet localhost 106", from within the server?

 

[TheGamer1701]

I'm having the same problem.

i opened port 106 through the Plesk Admin interface.
I also changed the "localhost" to my servery ip adresse


still it's not working.
I really need help here.


I tried the "telnet localhost 106" command and it returns:

telnet localhost 106
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
Trying ::1...
telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused

 

[apro2000]

encountering the same problem as mentioned above tried the same things, noting worked, has anybody an idea??

 

[jamesyeeoc]

If you are using a RH type system, make sure xinetd is running and listening on that port:

[root@ns2 xinetd.d]# netstat -npa |grep '106'
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:106 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1342/xinetd

The poppassd_psa should look like:

[root@ns2 xinetd.d]# cat poppassd_psa
service poppassd
{
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
port = 106
wait = no
disable = no
user = root
instances = 1000
flags = KEEPALIVE
server = /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/poppassd
}

Try restarting xinetd

 

[apro2000]

it's suse :-(...

 

[apro2000]

problem still exists, has anybody an idea?

 

[jamesyeeoc]

@apro2000 - Did you ever try what vishnu suggested?

Originally posted by vishnu
What is the result of "telnet localhost 106", from within the server?

SSH into the server as root and issue that command from the shell prompt. If port 106 is responding from within the server itself, then you should see:

[root@ns2 root]# telnet localhost 106
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
200 poppassd hello, who are you?
quit

If you see something like the following, then poppassd is either not running, or port 106 is being blocked:

telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused

I am not familiar with Suse commands, but there should be something similar to the 'netstat' command in other Linux's.

I use: netstat -npa |grep '106' and get an output like:

[root@ns2 root]# netstat -npa |grep '106'
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:106 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4362/xinetd

Which tells me that my xinetd daemon is listening on port 106.

 

[apro2000]

ok seems like no popassd or anything else is listening on '106'...

 

[apro2000]

Funny things happen,

after now upgrading to PLESK 7.5.2 --> 7.5.3
everything works...strange..thanks anyway!

 

[jean-david]

Same problem

I have the same problem with the latest plesk 7.5.4 and the additionnal horde components.
However, I have no poppassd daemon running:

root@kmail:/# telnet localhost 106
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
root@kmail:/#

I think I have poppassd installed, since

root@kmail:/# locate poppass
/opt/psa/admin/bin/poppassd
/opt/psa/admin/sbin/poppassd
/usr/share/psa-horde/passwd/lib/Driver/poppassd.php
/var/lib/nessus/plugins/poppassd_too_long_user.nasl
/var/qmail/users/poppasswd
root@kmail:/#

How to start the poppassd ? Can it be configured somewhere ?

 

[reeq_18]

i have same problem in this case

my box use FreeBSD
i can't open port 106