At 4:38 PM +0200 6/9/01, Nhan NGO DINH (OCIC Missionary Service) wrote:
> I've looked at the Qpopper sources and I've seen that when the
> program processes the "USER" POP3 command it doesn't query the PAM
> interface but directly it uses the getpwnam() function (so it takes
> care of /etc/passwd).
>
> It seems to be something wrong, but may be I'm wrong.
> Can anyone tell me more about that?
Qpopper uses the pwnam entry for the user to know which user owns the
spool, which groups the user is a member of, what the home directory
is (if home directory options are used), etc.
