You're right. But I think that an easier way would be
to use the --enable-specialauth, flag. Btw, Mark, this
is in the FAQ:
http://www.eudora.com/qpopper/faq.html#shadow
Hope it helps,
Gustavo
--- Tim Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, I'm no expert at all, but have you considered
> "--with-pam"
> and then gone through the stuff you need to do when
> you're
> using pam? I think RedHat 6.2 uses PAM by default
> on
> installs. The PAM stuff is in the documentation and
> I believe
> in the text files that come with the qpopper
> tarball.
> Hope I'm leading you up the right path anyway.
>
> Tim
>
>
> Mark Weisman wrote:
> >
> > Excuse the topic,
> > I'm currently using Qpopper 3.1.2 effectively,
> on a Red hat v6.2 box. I've
> > got sendmail and DNS all setup so the machine is
> working. I went through and
> > followed the steps below:
> > >> make clean
> > >> ./configure --enable-servermode
> --enable-log-login --enable-bulletins
> > >>=/var/spool/bulls --enable-timing
> > >>
> > >> make
> >
> > I then use the kill -HUP on the inetd.conf file
> and then attempt to login
> > using a telnet session:
> > telnet <servername> pop3
> >
> > Enter my username,
> > Enter my password,
> >
> > I get the following error message:
> > -ERR [AUTH] Password supplied for "username"
> is incorrect.
> > I know I've entered the correct password, and I've
> checked to ensure that
> > the path is readable, I'm missing something, I
> just don't know what.
> >
> > The weird thing is that I can use the pine
> software, and read all messages
> > from /var/spool/mail folder just fine, yet Qpopper
> will not read them.
> >
> > Any ideas,
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
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