Okay. Take a look in your shadow file and check the
entry for your user. If it starts with a $ and it's a
really long hash, you're most certainly using MD5
passwords. If not, if there's no $ in the beggining
and it's a small (13 chars), it's a DES password.
Good luck with it! I'm still waiting for someone from
Qualcomm to give us some feedback, if possible.
Gustavo Viscaino
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- Richard van Drimmelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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