> Hello.
>
> I'm having a problem with pop3 authentication using qmail 1.03 on a FreeBSD 3.0
> stable system. Hardware is a pII/300 with 192megs ram, a 2gig uw-scsi primary
> for the OS and system files, and 2 6.5gig uw-scsi drives using vinum for
> stripping which has maildirs only. smtp works flawlessly so far. Pop3 fails with
> "-ERR authorization failed". I have checkpassword 0.81 and ucspi-tcp-0.84
> installed and running, however being unfamiliar with the checkpassword package,
> I dont know how it's doing the check. BSD uses a shadow password scheme, however
> file names are not consistent with other OS's which use similar. Linux/Solaris
> use passwd/shadow. BSD uses passwd/master.passwd.
>
> I will also be needing to use an alternate db for the passwd file when this
> machine goes production. My dialip users are authenticated on a Solaris 2.6
> server using radius. I was planning to use rsync perhaps and keep a copy of the
> passwd/shadow file from the solaris box on the mail server..in which case I need
> a copy of checkpasswd compiled on the bsd machine but configured to run with the
> solaris shadow file.
>
> I'm using following command line for pop3 right now,
>
> tcpserver -c300 -uXX -gYY 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail.myisp.com \
> /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> --
> Stephen C. Comoletti
> Asst. Systems Administrator
> DELANET, Inc. http://www.delanet.com
> TEL: (302) 326-5800, FAX: (302) 326-5802
