On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Mike Iles wrote: >Hi Andreas, >Binc IMAP seems able to deal with the checkpw program because I'm now >getting past the authentication stage, but I'm curious to know why >checkpw doesn't seem to work when I call it directly. >I ran strace on it and have attached the output. Line 21 shows the >password being read from the input and line 92 shows the password being >read from ~/Maildir/.password. I'm curious to know what else can be >deduced from this log.
Did you run the printf test as a regular user? If so, then the setgroups() call getting permission denied would probably have caused the fault. Only root is allowed to call setgroups(). 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."
