The userid is coming in mixed case which will not match a lowercase entry
in the PASSWD file.
Butch
At 03:09 PM 12/21/00, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>the userid is in lowercase...and I am not using shadow passwords - I did try
>the --enable-specialauth just for fun and it didn't work...
>
>Dave
>
>
>
>maybe you have JohnSmith capitalized in your password file. all usernames
>should be lowercase.
>
>-Tony
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>On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Dave Robinson wrote:
>
> > I am having a seriously hard time getting Qpopper to work on our Linux
>mail
> > server. Sendmail has been installed on this box and has been running
> > perfectly for 9 months. I installed Qpopper and have not been able to get
>it
> > to run. I followed all of your FAQ's and even consulted our Linux
> > consultants and no one can figure out what the problem is.
> >
> > Can you somehow offer me some assitance? The problem - whenever someone
>logs
> > in(using Outlook Express) they get a 'Your password was rejected' I have
> > checked and rechecked the password. I am using standard Linux
> > authentication, but tried the specialauth flag and still doesn't work.
> >
> > I enabled tracing and got the follwing output...
> >
> > Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: Debugging turned on [pop_init.c:240]
> > Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: (v3.0.2) Unable to get canonical name
>of
> > client ###.###.###.###: Unknown host (1) [pop_init.c:401]
> > Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: (v3.0.2) Servicing request from
> > "###.###.###.###" at ###.###.###.### [pop_init.c:504]
> > Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: +OK QPOP (version 3.0.2) at
> > mail.$$$$$$$.com starting. [popper.c:160]
> > Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: Qpopper ready for input from (null) at
> > ###.###.###.### [###.###.###.###] [popper.c:188]
> > Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: Received (16): "USER JohnSmith"
> > [pop_get_command.c:87]
> > Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: +OK Password required for JohnSmith.
> > [pop_user.c:249]
> > Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: Qpopper ready for input from JohnSmith
> > at ###.###.###.### [###.###.###.###] [popper.c:188]
> > Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: Received: "pass xxxxxxxxx"
> > [pop_get_command.c:81]
> > Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: User JohnSmith not in passwd file
> > [pop_pass.c:886]
> > Dec 21 16:00:29 mail qpopper[1113]: JohnSmith at ###.###.###.###
> > (###.###.###.###): -ERR [AUTH] Password supplied for "JohnSmith" is
> > incorrect. [pop_pass.c:888]
> > Dec 21 16:00:29 mail qpopper[1113]: +OK Pop server at mail.$$$$$$$.com
> > signing off. [popper.c:242]
> > Dec 21 16:00:29 mail qpopper[1113]: (v3.0.2) Ending request from
>"JohnSmith"
> > at (###.###.###.###) ###.###.###.### [popper.c:253]
> >
> > I changed certain text in the trace to protect the innocent. I checked my
> > \etc\passwd file and verified that JohnSmith existed. Does Qpopper use a
> > different passwd file?
> >
> >
> > Please Help!!!
> >
> > Dave Robinson
> >
> >
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