I will try to watch the logs here in a bit, see what is happening.
From: "Kenneth Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Subscribers of Qpopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Copies to: "guenter wessling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date sent: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 02:16:15 -0800
Priority: Normal
Subject: Re: Qpopper 3.1.2 on RH7.0 lags? -- apop /pam
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:09:58 +0100, guenter wessling wrote:
>
> >Now I m confused. Non-APOP automatically leads to PAM ?
> >Since when is this ?
>
> Sorry, I'm using Red Hat with PAM enabled for qpopper and forgot that
> it's a separate option. With just --enable-specialauth, qpopper looks
> for shadow passwords (as I read the documentation).
>
> Something to try: Attempt to log into qpopper with a non-APOP user, to
> elicit the failure. Then immediately go to /var/log and enter "ls -lt
> | head". The files at the top of the list will be the latest ones
> written, and you can run tail on each one to see if there were any
> authentication failures logged by the system authentication
> mechanisms. That should give a clue as to exactly what is failing.
>
> Ken
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