Sometimes the crypt funtion in the crypt libraries don't actually
work. Like on standard slackware systems. That could be the
problem.
Ken Joens
Peter Gradwell wrote:
>
> Hi Peter
>
> I was half way through writing a very same message.
>
> I'm running the same on FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE,
> and experience the same problem. Interesting
> things to note are that I'm
> - not getting this problem for shell a/c users
> - getting this problem for virtual users, regardless of whether
> I use mysql or normal storage.
>
> I'm also getting this problem on all versions from 3.4.11-2
>
> At 16:20 20/07/2000 +0000, Peter Hunter wrote:
> >The error in maillog reads: vchkpw: No user found
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> hum, from reading the code, it would appear that
> this error occurs when checking to see if they are real users [1]
>
> - so, they have not been identified as vpopmail users.
>
> - why, I'm not sure. I'd like to use mysql for my authentication
> and it would be quite helpful to get a log of all the sql executed
> against the database. However, can't quite see how to do that.
>
> - where in either vmysql.c or vchkpwd.c is the actual
> authentication code?
>
> any clues welcome ken!
>
> peter
>
> [1] note that the checking of real users works, so the vpopmail
> stuff is executing as a valid passwd-readable user id.
>
> --
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