Dear all: Please forgive me if a similar question to mine has already been answered in this list, but I've just subscribed to it and haven't seen anything alike in the last files of its archives.
I've been running for years and without problems an old version of the popper daemon on an SGI with IRIX 6.4, in which I've recently been able to install qpopper 4.0.3 without any errors (I did get many linker warnings, but that's certainly not the problem) just like this: ./configure --disable-specialauth # ./configure --enable-specialauth, which is what a plain ./configure would # do, wrongly assuming that I use shadow passwords, doesn't help make install However, when I run qpopper 4.0.3 as the POP server daemon on that SGI, I invariably get errors of the kind User <xxx> not known by system [pop_pass.c:1289] for any user <xxx> not listed in the file "/etc/passwd" of that SGI, which has a "+" entry to read the (plain) NIS password map (in IRIX 6.4, there's no "/etc/nsswitch.conf"). The only workaround seems to be adding users to the "/etc/passwd" file, but that's not too serious, right? Besides, the "+" setting works perfectly fine with an older popper daemon running on that SGI, as I've told you, or with qpopper 4.0.3 running on an HP with HP-UX 10.20, which acts as an NFS client of the SGI. Thanks a lot in advance for any help. F.
