On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Bo Mellberg wrote:
>Thank you so much for helping me out! I created
>a .password-file in lotta's home directory and gave
>it the right permission and owners, and it did the
>trick. I am now able to login as lotta.

Funny - you created a .password file, and I guess put a password in it?

>I have no idea why this password package is used (checkpw),
>but I will swap to checkpassword immediately. Am I correct
>that the only place to change this is in the xinetd run file,
>changing from /bin/checkpw to /bin/checkpassword?
>As a matter of fact there is no /bin/checkpw at all!? Strange.

It's /usr/bin/checkpw. Yes, I'd recommend going for /bin/checkpassword if 
unix users are all that will access IMAP.

Andy :-)

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