On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 01:27:26AM -0500, Peter Drahos wrote:
> I hope there is somebody out there so late on Saturday evening. I just want
> to warn you that this is my first Qmail installation and I am quite new to
> the Linux world. I was able to install checkpassword -0.81 and when I am
> testing it, I get these results.
>
> [root@test users]# telnet localhost 110
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.localdomain.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> user test
> +OK
> pass test
> -ERR authorization failed
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> [root@test users]# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup test.com /bin/checkpassword pwd
> +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> user test
> +OK
> pass test
> -ERR authorization failed
>
> ***************************** user test is a pop user in the assign file
> and has an encrypted password test in the poppasswd file, has a dir in
> popboxes/test-com/test/Maildir/ where he is successfully receiving his mail.
> *****************************
The stock checkpassword-0.81 doesn't support anything other than system
users--a poppasswd file means nothing to it.
For a checkpassword that does support a poppasswd file, try
http://www.palomine.net/qmail/checkcdb.tar.gz (or check www.qmail.org. There
are others).
Chris
