Hi, I just added a PC to my home network and was playing with trying to access directories on my Mac OS X system and suddenly my pop server quit working (qpopper). It had been working fine for at least a year!
Not a single user could connect to the server via telnet ( I can connect ok but sending the password *always* fails). I hopped into perl as root and tried: macjerry:~ root# perl -de0 Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.28 Editor support available. Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help. main::(-e:1): 0 DB<1> print getpwnam "jerry" jerry********501200Jerry LeVan/Users/jerry/bin/bash0 note the *'s where the password should be...I suspect this is why qpopper is failing. I think mucking around with enabling Mac OSX to allow Windows Networking connections has mucked up how passwords are handled. I can still log on ok and the only thing that I have found so far that is broken is the pop3 server I am running. How can I programatically determine if user "x" has password "z"? A cursory exam of the qpopper code "seems" to indicate that the getpw family of functions seem to be used. I have spent the better part of the day trying to run down how to do user authentication on Mac OS X (10.4.2) but I have not made any headway.... Thanks for any pointers. Jerry
