On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:16:27AM -0600, Bob Carpenter wrote:
> I've been running into password authentication problems with my RH 6.2
> implementation. Open-ssh does weird things too... but back to qmail.
>
> Here's the info I hope is relevant:
>
> Telnetting into the POP3 server, fails:
>
> [root@mercury bob]# telnet localhost 110
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to mercury.redsea.co.cr (127.0.0.1).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK <961.958499285@\>
> user bob
> +OK
> pass xxxxxxx
> -ERR authorization failed
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> Yet, using the checkpassword test as indicated in INSTALL for checkpassword:
>
> root@mercury bob]# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup host /bin/checkpassword pwd
> +OK <968.958499400@host>
> user bob
> +OK
> pass xxxxxxx
> /home/bob
> [root@mercury bob]#
>
> In /etc/inetd.conf I have:
>
> pop3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup
> qmail-popup \
> mercury.redsea.co.cr /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d
> Maildir
You can't split lines in inetd.conf using \ (or anything else). Just stick it
all on one line and take the \ out.
Chris
