[vchkpw] vpopmail uid/gid 89

2003-11-07 Thread Don Walters
Can somebody explain what I need to do in order to change the uid/gid for vpopmail to something other than 89.89. I have poured over the archives looking for a way, but I can't find anything that explains how. Is there some special reason it needs to be 89? I have tried going into some of

Re: [vchkpw] Re: Inserting new users via mysql-insert into the vpopmail database

2003-11-07 Thread Anders Brander
Hejsa, On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 00:21, Tom Collins wrote: Narrowing the possible scope for each letter to 64 from some larger group but increasing the entropy that goes into selecting each character seems like a good idea to me. Remember that we're only selecting 8 random characters --

RE: [vchkpw] vpopmail uid/gid 89

2003-11-07 Thread Ross Davis - DataAnywhere.net
It can be any number. The only thing that you will run into is that a lot of scripts refer to that number and it is used in any rpm's that you find. Where did it come from you ask? It has been reserved for use by FreeBSD and it has just become the standard. Ross Davis DataAnywhere.net

[vchkpw] patch for vdelivermail?

2003-11-07 Thread Klaus P. Gapp
How can I patch vdelivermail to use a special envelope-sender when sending mail to a valias address? Anybody out there with such insights? Thanks Klaus The Problem I am working on: I am using qmail with vpopmail. Using the valias functionality, I provide users an alias email address on our

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail uid/gid 89

2003-11-07 Thread Cristiano Deana
Il giorno Friday 07 November 2003 08:23, Don Walters mi scriveva: I have tried going into some of the config files and I found a couple of places where it specifies 89.89 for the uid/gid. I have even tried changing these to what I want them to be, but now my qmail isn't working. Looking at

Re: [vchkpw] Re: Inserting new users via mysql-insert into the vpopmail database

2003-11-07 Thread Tom Collins
On Friday, November 7, 2003, at 06:54 PM, Anders Brander wrote: Making use of /dev/urandom and/or /dev/random will be high on our priority list for the 5.5 development series. You wan't patches? That would be a nice project for little me... Yep, if you can come up with a patch that checks for the

[vchkpw] question about adding a new domain

2003-11-07 Thread Gary
Hi all, Ok i'm got vpopmail installed on my qmail server, now i have a quick question about adding domains when setting up a new domain do i set it up as just vadddomain domain.com or as vadddomain mail.domain.com ( assuming mail. is the mx record in dns ) I think it is the first one but jsut

Re: [vchkpw] question about adding a new domain

2003-11-07 Thread Rick Macdougall
Gary wrote: Hi all, Ok i'm got vpopmail installed on my qmail server, now i have a quick question about adding domains when setting up a new domain do i set it up as just vadddomain domain.com or as vadddomain mail.domain.com ( assuming mail. is the mx record in dns ) Hi, What ever the @domain

Re: [vchkpw] question about adding a new domain

2003-11-07 Thread Gary
Gary wrote: Hi all, Ok i'm got vpopmail installed on my qmail server, now i have a quick question about adding domains when setting up a new domain do i set it up as just vadddomain domain.com or as vadddomain mail.domain.com ( assuming mail. is the mx record in dns )

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail uid/gid 89

2003-11-07 Thread Don Walters
On a lot of systems these days you can run vipw to edit the password file and change the UID. vipw will update the shadow password file too (if you use shadow passwords). I have vipw (I'm running RH9) but it seems to be just a incantation of the vi editor that takes me through the files and

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail uid/gid 89

2003-11-07 Thread Ken Jones
On Friday 07 November 2003 12:35 pm, Don Walters wrote: On a lot of systems these days you can run vipw to edit the password file and change the UID. vipw will update the shadow password file too (if you use shadow passwords). I have vipw (I'm running RH9) but it seems to be just a

[vchkpw] vchkpw not logging errors

2003-11-07 Thread Fred Tucker
The problem: I can't log into any of my vpopmail accounts (just building this out for the first time) and nothing is being logged in /var/log/messages (or anywhere else in /var/log) regarding why my authentication is failing. Does anyone have any ideas about anywhere an error message about the

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail uid/gid 89

2003-11-07 Thread Ajai Khattri
Don Walters wrote: I have vipw (I'm running RH9) but it seems to be just a incantation of the vi editor that takes me through the files and allows me to edit them. Essentially it *is* a wrapper but it also does some file-locking and other housekeeping... RH also has pwd_conv to manually create

Re: [vchkpw] vchkpw not logging errors

2003-11-07 Thread Fred Tucker
I ran tail -f /var/log/maillog and then ran telnet localhost 110 as before and received no authentication logging. /var/log/maillog does contain the following with a tail -n 20 /var/log/maillog: Nov 6 22:25:48 webserver2 spamd[26758]: connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] at port 56571 Nov

[vchkpw] Mysql database: vpopmail courier-imap virtual domains...

2003-11-07 Thread Marc Lécuyer
Hi list, Sorry to disturb you all :) Well, i'm trying to install on a debian 3.0 stable woody the nice combinaison of: Qmail / vpopmail / mysql / squirrelmail. I've followed the howto http://www.pipeline.com.au/staff/mbowe/isp/webmail-server.htm; but ran into a big problem I think I won't be

Re: [vchkpw] vchkpw not logging errors

2003-11-07 Thread Fred Tucker
Ok - so I got the first part of the problem fixed after running some straces and I apologize for not finding this earlier: /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d/run was still looking at /bin/checkpasswd. So that is now fixed and I have a new message: error while loading shared libraries:

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail uid/gid 89

2003-11-07 Thread X-Istence
Don Walters wrote: On a lot of systems these days you can run vipw to edit the password file and change the UID. vipw will update the shadow password file too (if you use shadow passwords). I have vipw (I'm running RH9) but it seems to be just a incantation of the vi editor that takes me

Re: [vchkpw] Mysql database: vpopmail courier-imap virtual domains...

2003-11-07 Thread Michael Bowe
- Original Message - From: Marc Lécuyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi list, Sorry to disturb you all :) Well, i'm trying to install on a debian 3.0 stable woody the nice combinaison of: Qmail / vpopmail / mysql / squirrelmail. I've followed the howto