At 3:04 PM -0800 11/22/01, Jens wrote:

>When I telnet to localhost 110 on the machine that qpopper is installed,
>everything seems ok. I enter 'user username' to which qpopper replies that a
>password is required. I then enter 'pass password' and after contemplating
>life for some time, qpopper tells me that there is a PAM authentication
>failure (7).

Try enabling debug tracing in Qpopper at least, and also in the 
various PAM modules, if possible.  This may at least give more 
information.

To enable tracing in Qpopper:

1.  Do a 'make clean'
2.  Re-run ./configure, adding '--enable-debugging'.
3.  Edit the inetd.conf line for Qpopper, adding '-d' or '-t <tracefile-path>'.
4.  Send inetd (or xinetd) a HUP signal.

(Steps 3 and 4 are only needed if you use inetd (or xinetd).  In 
standalone mode, you can add '-d' or '-t <tracefile-path>' to the 
command line directly.)

(In either standalone or inetd mode, if you use a configuration file 
you can add 'set debug' or 'set tracefile = <tracefile>' to either a 
global or user-specific configuration file instead of steps 3 and 4.)

This causes detailed tracing to be written to the syslog or to the 
file specified as 'tracefile'.


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