With the Debian Distributions, you can either use Shadow Passwords or not.
If you are using Shadow Passwords, then you need "--enable-specialauth".
If you are NOT using Shadow Passwords, then you do NOT need
"--enable-specialauth".
Look at the entry for "sander" in /etc/passwd. The second field in the
record contains the password. If it contains an "*", then you are using
Shadow Passwords. Look at the entry for "sander" in /etc/shadow and there
the second field will contain the password.
Take a look at "man shadowconfig". This is the command to turn on|off the
shadow passwords.
Butch
At 03:01 AM 2/15/01, you wrote:
>Trying to install qp 3.1.2 on a Linux 2.2.17 kernel (Debain 2.2).
>
>I have added "--enable-specialauth" to configure, but still I get
>rejected when telnetting to port 110.
>
>telnet localhost 110
>Trying 127.0.0.1...
>Connected to localhost.
>Escape character is '^]'.
>+OK QPOP (version 3.1.2) at localhost starting.
>user sander
>+OK Password required for sander.
>pass xxxxx
>-ERR [AUTH] Password supplied for "sander" is incorrect.
>+OK Pop server at localhost signing off.
>Connection closed by foreign host.
>
>
>In /var/log/mail.log:
>
>Feb 14 14:11:35 www1 popper[1147]: sander at localhost (127.0.0.1): -ERR
>[AUTH] Password supplied for "sander" is incorrect.
>Feb 14 14:11:35 www1 popper[1147]: [AUTH] Failed attempted login to
>sander from host (localhost) 127.0.0.1
>
>If I telnet to port 23 and login using this username/password, all works
>fine.
>
>Can someone help me out ?
>
>Thanks for your time,
>
>Richard van Drimmelen
>SARA Computing Services
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