Re: [vchkpw] vchkpw authentication fails

2004-12-01 Thread Rainer Duffner
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Re: [vchkpw] vchkpw authentication fails

2004-11-30 Thread John Berliner
In the kernel, is UFS_DIRHASH enabled, or whatever the option is? This caused a lot of trouble on another server i admin, where it would be so slow, that at times login sporadically failed. It is enabled by default, and it would be stupid to have been removed, but you never know. Hm...I'm

Re: [vchkpw] vchkpw authentication fails

2004-11-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
John Berliner wrote: In the kernel, is UFS_DIRHASH enabled, or whatever the option is? This caused a lot of trouble on another server i admin, where it would be so slow, that at times login sporadically failed. It is enabled by default, and it would be stupid to have been removed, but you never

Re: [vchkpw] vchkpw authentication fails

2004-11-30 Thread X-Istence
On Nov 30, 2004, at 11:49 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: John Berliner wrote: In the kernel, is UFS_DIRHASH enabled, or whatever the option is? This caused a lot of trouble on another server i admin, where it would be so slow, that at times login sporadically failed. It is enabled by default, and

[vchkpw] vchkpw authentication fails

2004-11-29 Thread John Berliner
I am a web and application developer who has inherited sysadmin duties for our school's servers. Thus I'm basically a novice. I have scoured the web and mailing lists for clues to solving my problem here, but no luck. So here goes: Our mail services are all working fine, with the exception of

Re: [vchkpw] vchkpw authentication fails

2004-11-29 Thread X-Istence
On Nov 29, 2004, at 6:33 PM, John Berliner wrote: I am a web and application developer who has inherited sysadmin duties for our school's servers. Thus I'm basically a novice. I have scoured the web and mailing lists for clues to solving my problem here, but no luck. So here goes: Our mail

Re: [vchkpw] vchkpw authentication fails - more info

2003-07-04 Thread Howard Miller
Se ahead for answers to your questions... On Thursday 03 July 2003 19:23, Kiril Todorov wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:02:54AM +0100, Howard Miller wrote: Hi again, Further to my previous email (follows), I have discovered something else. I created a new user. I can send mail to

Re: [vchkpw] vchkpw authentication fails - more info

2003-07-04 Thread Kiril Todorov
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 08:52:56AM +0100, Howard Miller wrote: what's your pop3d run script? I am using xinet, so... And that's exactly your problem : cut from xinetd.conf (5) cps Limits the rate of incoming connections. Takes two arguments. The first argument is the

Re: [vchkpw] vchkpw authentication fails - more info

2003-07-04 Thread Howard Miller
Mmm Thanks, yes, but, I have set up a similar system many times previously and always used SuSE Linux with daemontools and ucspi-tcp, no problems at all. However this particular system is RedHat 8, and I was having big problems with daemontools processes just dying (big list of defunct

Re: [vchkpw] vchkpw authentication fails - more info

2003-07-04 Thread Kiril Todorov
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 09:51:06AM +0100, Howard Miller wrote: Mmm However this particular system is RedHat 8, and I was having big problems with daemontools processes just dying (big list of defunct processes). This was reported by others here and there but I never saw (or found) a

Re: [vchkpw] vchkpw authentication fails - more info

2003-07-04 Thread Howard Miller
Thanks for your all your help, by the way :-) I actually spent *days*, and lots of digging on the Net, trying to get it to work with daemontools. As I say I have a number of working systems to compare and contrast with, and I do generally stick closely to Mr. McKenna's howto. What I mean to

[vchkpw] vchkpw authentication fails - more info

2003-07-03 Thread Howard Miller
Hi again, Further to my previous email (follows), I have discovered something else. I created a new user. I can send mail to that user and it correctly ends up in the Maildir. BUT vchkpw does not authenticate that user ever - always an error. Stranger still, the failure is *not* logged