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

2003-11-03 Thread Tom Collins
On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 02:42 AM, Paul L. Allen wrote: Ummm, some quick digging later and the situation is worse than I thought. Not only does vpopmail use rand(), it initializes srand with a variant of time(NULL) ^ getpid(). time(NULL) ^ getpid() has long been known to not be a good

[vchkpw] SMTP Auth and vpopmail-5.3.X

2003-11-03 Thread Erwin Hoffmann
Hi, I just checked the most recent (available) vopopmail-5.3.27. Here, you inclued CRAM-MD5 support from Krzysztof Dabrowski. This implementation is broken; it does not confirm with Dan Bernstein's checkpassword API. Dan requires: user0password0 or - in case of C/R - user0response0challenge0.

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

2003-11-03 Thread Nick Harring
Tom Collins wrote: On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 02:42 AM, Paul L. Allen wrote: Ummm, some quick digging later and the situation is worse than I thought. Not only does vpopmail use rand(), it initializes srand with a variant of time(NULL) ^ getpid(). time(NULL) ^ getpid() has long been

[vchkpw] vpopmail pasw encryption change..

2003-11-03 Thread Roze
Hello. Could somebody give some instructions how to change existing vopmail vchkpw auth type, routine (where exactly it compares passwords the user has given and the one stored in MySQL database). The idea is such: There is an existing user database which I have to move to a mailsystem (qmail +

Fw: Re: [vchkpw] vconvert

2003-11-03 Thread Duane Stark
Any ideas re: this problem? I'm in bad need of some help!! Thanks, Duane Original Message From: Duane Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, Oct-31-2003 11:34 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] vconvert According to pkg_info, vpopmail-5.3.28. It's

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

2003-11-03 Thread Paul L. Allen
I'm going to try to answer both you and Tom at the same time. One of the few times I didn't bother checking mail at least once after finishing on Friday night and I have over 300 waiting for me on Monday morning. Nick Harring writes: Tom Collins wrote: For generating a salt, I think we're

[vchkpw] Re: vpopmail pasw encryption change..

2003-11-03 Thread Paul L. Allen
Roze writes: The idea is such: There is an existing user database which I have to move to a mailsystem (qmail + vpopmail + mysql). All the passwords are encypted (no way to get plain-text) (with standart CRYPT) though there is also SALT provided which is 2 first symbols from username.

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

2003-11-03 Thread Nick Harring
Paul L. Allen wrote: I'm going to try to answer both you and Tom at the same time. One of the few times I didn't bother checking mail at least once after finishing on Friday night and I have over 300 waiting for me on Monday morning. Nick Harring writes: Better than what you have,

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

2003-11-03 Thread Nick Harring
Nick Harring wrote: This is the Right Thing imho. It might be easier though to move the srandom()/random() and new reads from /dev/urandom into a function of its own, rather than replacing them whereever they're sprinkled through the code. I realize that's even more work, but its probably

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

2003-11-03 Thread Paul L. Allen
Nick Harring writes: Storing cleartext passwords is generally horrible security, so this and that don't really relate to each other. Except to the extent that vpopmail now supports cleartext passwords (I have a vague memory they're needed for CRAM authentication) I whole heartedly agree.

Re: [vchkpw] Old Problem Re-visited

2003-11-03 Thread Tom Collins
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 01:03 AM, Rick Macdougall wrote: Try 5.2.2 from Sourceforge, a lot of bug fixes have been back ported by Tom, Ken and the gang. Credit where credit is due: Michael Bowe did all of the backporting, and is entirely responsible for the 5.2.2 release. He also took

Re: [vchkpw] Enable learn passwords

2003-11-03 Thread Tom Collins
On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 01:19 PM, John Johnson wrote: I have been working on a test system and I set enable learn password to yes but qmailadmin and vadduser will not let me Add an account with out a password. Also will vpopmail learn The password on an imap connection using courier

Re: [vchkpw] testing methods

2003-11-03 Thread Tom Collins
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 06:36 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: My question is this, if I do vaddomain isp.com so that I can test my syncing script, and I want to keep qmail in the dark about the existence of this domain, can I simply pull the isp.com entries out of the rcpthosts and assign

Re: [vchkpw] Re: vpopmail pasw encryption change..

2003-11-03 Thread Reinis Rozitis
To be sure in that way if dont provide previously used salt (in the user passwords which havent been added using 'vadduser') in crypt will the authorization through pop work? Theoretically salt is the first 2 symbols, but will vpopmail (vchkpsw) understand/use that? - Original Message -

Re: [vchkpw] Old Problem Re-visited

2003-11-03 Thread Rick Macdougall
Tom Collins wrote: On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 01:03 AM, Rick Macdougall wrote: Try 5.2.2 from Sourceforge, a lot of bug fixes have been back ported by Tom, Ken and the gang. Credit where credit is due: Michael Bowe did all of the backporting, and is entirely responsible for the

[vchkpw] Re: vpopmail pasw encryption change..

2003-11-03 Thread Paul L. Allen
Reinis Rozitis writes: To be sure in that way if dont provide previously used salt (in the user passwords which havent been added using 'vadduser') in crypt will the authorization through pop work? Theoretically salt is the first 2 symbols, but will vpopmail (vchkpsw) understand/use that?

[vchkpw] wierd warning in smtp logs

2003-11-03 Thread Sérgio Manuel Rosa
Hi all, had anyone got this warning in smtp logs? from log/smtp/current @40003fa6d2742cc3dc9c tcpserver: status: 1/50 @40003fa6d2742cc576c4 tcpserver: pid 28174 from 81.92.196.94 @40003fa6d2742cc71ca4 tcpserver: ok 28174 0:10.0.0.200:25 :81.92.196.94::33304 @40003fa6d275254730a4

[vchkpw] Re: passwd

2003-11-03 Thread Paul L. Allen
X-Istence writes: He cant do MD 5 auths, or does vchkpw allow for MD5 auth logins? If my unreliable memory is not letting me down, it can do CRAM-MD5 if you have plaintext passwords set. For some versions of vpopmail. -- Paul Allen Softflare Support

[vchkpw] Re: qmail installation script 1.3.6 final release

2003-11-03 Thread Paul L. Allen
Nick Harring writes: That's funny, it looked a lot like signal to me. Not only did I refer you to a seminal work by Claude Shannon from the late 1940s, I gave you a summary of the salient details - yet you fail to understand. A new subscriber to this list who has not checked the archives, or

Re: [vchkpw] autoresponder/vacation

2003-11-03 Thread Charles Sprickman
And probably this one as well: http://untroubled.org/qmail-autoresponder/ On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Charles Sprickman wrote: Hi, Is anyone else using something other than the autorespond package to handle vacation-style messages? I'm finding that autorespond doesn't look like a good choice for

[vchkpw] Re: autoresponder/vacation

2003-11-03 Thread Paul L. Allen
Charles Sprickman writes: I'm finding that autorespond doesn't look like a good choice for people used to a standard vacation responder It is a BAD choice for a vacation responder. It lacks many features ESSENTIAL in a vacation responder. You might as well ask if sticking your naughty

Re: [vchkpw] testing methods

2003-11-03 Thread Songrit Srilasak
- Original Message - From: Tom Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vpopmail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] testing methods Leave it in assign so vpopmail/qmailadmin will still work, but remove it from rcpthosts (or morercpthosts and

[vchkpw] Re: testing methods

2003-11-03 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Songrit, On Monday, November 3, 2003 at 4:28:40 PM you wrote (at least in part): Leave it in assign so vpopmail/qmailadmin will still work, but remove it from rcpthosts (or morercpthosts and then rebuild morercpthosts.cdb). How to rebuild morercpthosts.cdb and /var/qmail/users/cdb

Re: [vchkpw] Re: autoresponder/vacation

2003-11-03 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Paul L. Allen wrote: I'm finding that autorespond doesn't look like a good choice for people used to a standard vacation responder It is a BAD choice for a vacation responder. It lacks many features ESSENTIAL in a vacation responder. You might as well ask if