Hi stevie ,

i  followed this guide some time back and all came out fine .

http://www.linuxmail.info/squirrelmail-change-password-howto/

See if this will help you .

Regards

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Okalany Daniel <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Had an issue similar to this sometime back, and here is the breakdown:
>
> That plugin connects directly to mysql, so your accounts have to be stored
> in a MySQL table.
> Then it uses a hashing function (MySQL's by default, ie. PASSWORD()), so
> you
> need to know how POSTFIX + DOVECOT connect to your database, EXIM + COURIER
> were using authlib, so it was possible to customize the hashing function.
> You need to configure the plugin with your MySQL info, and if the rest are
> defaults you should have it running automatically.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stevie kabs [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 12:17 PM
> To: lug
> Subject: [LUG] Squirrelmail
>
> Hi,
> I have an issue with  the change_passwd plugin in squirrelmail. it retuern
> an error (Connection error: Connection refused (111)) whenever i try to
> change the password.
> I have a CentoS 5.5 box and my MTA is Postfix, dovecot is my  IMAP,POP3
> server,.
> I have only changed one thing in config.php that is the password length
> from
> 8 to 6.
> changed permissions like  chown root:apache chpasswd,chmod 4750 chpasswd
>
> that is all. but i still get an error.
>
> thanks in advance
>
> --
> Stephen Kabali
> Datacenter Administrator
> Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI) [email protected] www.uiri.org
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