Newbie qmail install problems

[Barry Dwyer]

On testing checkpassword and checkvpw:

>> Are you running as root?  If you're not running as root, and you
have shadowed passwords, you won't be able to test the authentication
against the password file.

Yes, we use shadow passwords. I'm telnetting into the server, logged in
as myself (member of 'root' group) and su'd to root. Would that still
cause the authorization error?

Barry Dwyer