I had same block yesterday, below is what I did
worked a treat for me
-snip-
555 emerge -aDuv world {block showed up here}
556 emerge -aCv qmail
557 emerge -av qmail
-snip-
stu
On 23/10/05, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 23 October 2005 00:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Still something to learn I guess. my poppasswd file is still the example
> > file that came with whatever it came with. My pop accounts are
> > authenticated via the regular linux logins, so for every pop user (3 at
> > the moment) I have a user acount in linux.
>
> Good good.
>
> > What package uses this poppasswd file?
>
> cmd5checkpw, and anything else which does CRAM MD5 authentication at a guess.
> CRAM is done by sending a hash of the password over the wire, the salt is
> unique for each connection, so you need the plain text password on the server
> to check against, which are kept in poppasswd.
> Secure over the wire, hideously insecure on the server.
>
> > I tried qpkg, but that doesn't seem to exist any more?
>
> Yeah, it got moved to another package as it's depreciated in favour of equery.
>
> > Does the above mean I can safely enable noauthcram?
>
> Yes.
>
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