Hello all,

I was upgrading an old machine with an old version of
Slackware Linux to a RedHat Linux 6.2 a while ago.
After I copied /etc/passwd, shadow, and group to a
disk, put the files into the fresh installed RedHat
6.2 box and compiled Qpopper with
--enable-specialauth, I realized I was still not able
to log in with any user. All attempts returned the
usual "Password supplied for whoever is incorrect."
Then I added a new user and his account worked
perfectly. Then I issued the command "passwd -S
oldaccount" and "passwd -S newaccount". The old
account was using DES encryption + shadow and the new
one I had created was using RedHat 6.2�s default, MD5
+ shadow passwords. Just to make sure I wasn�t going
crazy, I disabled the MD5 option (so it would use DES
encryption), added a new user and ... bingo. "Password
supplied for whoever is incorrect".

Of course I could just change all users� passwords,
but geez... 1000 users, people! ;-) Well, of course, I
used PAM as my last chance and it worked... but it was
a true pain and for some other reasons, I can�t use
PAM in other setups. So does anyone know if this is a
Qpopper�s bug, feature or just common behaviour? Did I
screw things up half-way through? ;)

Thanks in advance,

Gustavo Viscaino

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