Hawke,
I had to set suid to get checkpassword to work on
my system (chmod u+s /bin/checkpassword). Use the example
in INSTALL to see if it works.
-Tom
Hawke Robinson wrote:
>
> Sure could use a hint as to what's hanging me up on this,any suggestions are
> appreciated:
> I am running Linux 2.2.5-15 (RH6) and qmail 1.03 and daemontools 0.53 and
> checkpassword 0.81.
> I can send email fine (smtp is ok), and my server is getting the emails and
> holding them for me (I can read my emails if I ssh (or telnet) into the
> server with my account and type "mail" and do what I wish with it. but if I
> start up netscape on that server and try to get email I get "ERR-
> authorization failed" error. (of course it does the same remotely as well).
> One concern I have is the server doesn't seem to be putting my email into
> the maildir(S) (As I thought I had configured, but must have done wrong
> somewhere?), it just puts it in the mailbox instead (I think?). But even
> though that may be wrong, wouldn't I still be able to check pop3 without an
> error? I just wouldn't actually\get any emai right? I thought maybe I had
> screwed up the checkpassword somehow (simple though it may be), so
> reinstalled it, but made no difference. If i test checkpassword run as su
> (or root) root I can test the user and pass just fine, (but of course if I'm
> running as a regular user and run the test steps it doens't matter which
> user I pass to it, I get the ERR- authentication failed). Probably one
> simple piece I missed, I appreeciate any insight.
> Thanks
>
> -Hawke Robinson
> CNA, MCP+I, MCSE, ASin CS, more on the way...
> Sun Solaris Admin, Java Programmer, CCNA.
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