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Rajesh Fowkar forced the electrons to say:
> I had installed imap.rpm from Red Hat 6.2 CD. It contains ipop3d server.
Uh oh - therein lies your problem. RedHat and SuSE use different PAM
configurations.
> In /etc/pam.d/ there is a file called pop which contained the following :
> #%PAM-1.0
> auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok
> account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
> I commented the above two lines and restarted inetd and voila now my pop3
> server is working.
Well, I guess now it is authenticating without any password check. Give a
wrong password and see if it still authenticates, will you?
> Is pop3 using pam authentication ? I will go through the documentation of
> PAM. Don't know much about it.
Yes. In fact, PAM has become the de facto standard for authentication in
Linux nowadays. I am using it for apache and squid authentication as well
(Not to mention Courier IMAP, Solid POP and ftpd-BSD servers).
> Why using PAM for authentication fails for pop3 server ?
As I mentioned, cross distro incompatibilities. I'd say for SuSE, a sample
/etc/pam.d/pop should contain (look in the other files for exact paths):
#%PAM-1.0
auth required /lib/security/pam_unix.so
account required /lib/security/pam_unix.so
Binand
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