Re: PAM Authentication - For the record

[Randall Gellens]

Title: Re: PAM Authentication - For the record

At 3:01 PM -0500 5/19/05, James Medley wrote:

Hello All: Earlier today I sent the email shown below and thanks to Daniel's advise of comparing the pam.d/pop3 file with other pam.d files, I found a solution. The file qpopper4.0.7/doc/mac said...

Now you need an entry in /etc/pam.d/ for pop3.  Copy the sample pam

configuration file from the 'samples' directory to the '/etc/pam.d'

directory by entering the following commands.  Or skip these commands

and use 'make install' do it for you.

 sudo sh -c 'umask 0077; cp samples/qpopper.pam /etc/pam.d/pop3'

This did not work.

What specific errors did you get?  What did the Qpopper debug trace show?

 I instead copied the file pam.d/imap (which already included pop3) and added the word 'login' on the top line so it reads....

# pop3, imap, smtp, login : auth account password session
auth       required       pam_nologin.so
auth       sufficient     pam_securityserver.so
auth       sufficient     pam_unix.so
auth       required       pam_deny.so
account    required       pam_permit.so
password   required       pam_deny.so

session    required       pam_uwtmp.so

I'm glad to say qpopper4.0.7 is up and running on an iMac G5, OS 10.4. Thanks to all, Jim

At 9:00 AM -0500 5/19/05, James Medley wrote:

Hello All: I have installed Qpopper4.0.7 (enable-standalone) on an iMac G5 (OS 10.4). I followed the instructions giving in doc/mac and am having a problem with PAM authentication. I can start qpopper and give my user name but when trying my password I get; PAM authentication failed for user "jmedley" : Authentication failure (7) +OK Pop server at bmt-002.tamu.edu signing off.

Connection closed by foreign host. It acts as if I am using the wrong password. How do I setup users and passwords for qpopper? In the past I just use system prefs 'accounts'. Thanks for the help, Jim

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