Well, I just thought I would let you know that i solved the problem. The
account itself must have something wrong with it, perhaps there is some other
configuration file that disables the account. Anyway, I created a new account
with a different name, no shell and no home directory and re compiled popauth
and it works now. Thanks for everyone's suggestions.
On 14 Mar 2001, at 18:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ok, this is strange. I have a FreeBSD 4.2 system, and I have a 'pop' entry in
> the passwd file, UID 68. popauth doesn't think so. When I run popauth -init It
> returns this error:
> popauth: "68": userid unknown
>
> I took a peek at the source, and this error is returned upon failure of
> getpwnam. I am not entirely sure if this is a configuration problem within my
> system or if popauth is smocking crack. Does anyone know?
>
