Thanks for your answer,
Yes I'm using the shadow file (for obvious security reasons).
I have added the specialauth and it didn't work.
I also tried qpopper on a Sun Solaris 2.7 machine (also a 'shadowed'
machine), and this worked in 5 minutes.
Could it be a PAM problem ?
Butch Kemper wrote:
>
> 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,
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