Gustavo Viscaino wrote:
>
> It seems he's having the same problem I had once (and
> I actually sent a message to this forum, but you guys
> surely thought I was a dumb newbie who didn't read the
> manuals so I got no answer ;-)). It's Debian, right?
> Are you using DES passwords like some Slackware
> distros or you're using MD5 passwords? This is because
> I noticed that Qpopper doesn't like the DES+Shadow
> combination (it never worked for me). I had to
> manually change everyone who had DES passwords to MD5
> while using shadow so qpopper would accept it. You can
> find out if you have DES passwords using the command
> 'passwd -S username'.
>
> And I think that the hint on RedHat's config wouldn't
> work in this case because he didn't compile qpopper
> with PAM support (exactly my case, for other technical
> reasons I couldn't).
>
> Any ideas? Any setting on Debian or Slackware that we
> might be overlooking? Is it really qpopper's fault?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gustavo Viscaino
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ok, the 'passwd -S' output
# passwd -S sander
sander P 02/15/2001 0 99999 7 -1
According to passwd(1), the '-S' option gives information about:
(quoted from the man page)
The account status may be given with the -S option. The
status information consists of 6 parts. The first part
indicates if the user account is locked (L), has no pass
word (NP), or has a usable password (P). The second part
gives the date of the last password change. The next four
parts are the minimum age, maximum age, warning period,
and inactivity period for the password.
No information about DES/MD5 passwords.
the following question may not be suitable for this list:
Are there POP3 servers that work 'easily' with a Debian machine ?
>
> --- Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:41:18 +0100, Richard van
> > Drimmelen wrote:
> >
> > >"Zero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> > <7qx%5.1140$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > >
> > >>I have installed and compiled my qpopper 3.1.2
> > with
> > >>the --enable--specialauth
> > >>
> > >>Qpopper seems to be working fine. I can telnet to
> > it and it accetps my
> > >>connection. I enter a username and it asks for
> > pass, i enter that and it
> > >>says password for "blah" incorrect.
> > >
> > >Dear Kenneth,
> > >
> > >Same problem over here on a Linux 2.2.17 (Debian
> > 2.2) machine.
> > >
> > >How did you solve your problem ?
> >
> > Wasn't a problem for me. The original questioner is
> > "Zero". For Red
> > Hat, which uses PAM for specialauth, make sure you
> > have a pop3 file in
> > /etc/pam.d. Look at other files in that directory to
> > see what it should
> > look like.
> >
> > Ken
> > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/
> > [If answering a mailing list posting, please don't
> > cc me your reply. I'll take my answer on the list.]
> >
> >
>
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