On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 03:30:38PM -0700, Gregory Hicks wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I'm trying to bring up a new (replacement) mail server. I've copied
> the old, Solaris 7 qpopper to the new machine and have inetd starting
> it.
>
> However, I cannot login. But CAN login via telnet. But not via telnet
> to pop3... I get the following error:
>
> metis% telnet mailhub-2 pop3
> Trying 158.140.128.174...
> Connected to mailhub-2.cadence.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK Qpopper (version 4.0.5) at mailhub-2.cadence.com starting.
> user ghicks
> +OK Password required for ghicks.
> pass XxxxxxxX
> -ERR [AUTH] Password supplied for "ghicks" is incorrect.
>
> Any thoughts on what is not configured correctly? I get the same
> approximate error when trying to connect to the uw-imapd daemon...
>
> Assist will be appreciated.
Probably your PAM is not configured for these services on the new
machine. I'm not familiar with the Solaris dir structure, but at a wild
guess, I'd look at /etc/pam.d or similar for the two machines.
-- Clifton
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