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 :-) -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | "It is better not to do something http://www.bincimap.org/ | than to do it poorly."
