Gustavo Viscaino wrote:
>
> 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.
>
The machine is using DES password encryption.
Does that mean it should work straight away ?
> 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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