You want the following, probably, on compile time...

How should I authentication user logins?
Program

What is the authentication command?
/var/qmail/bin/vchkpw

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I am assuming you have vpopmail installed on the box and the users are
on that box, correct?
If you use pop3, and it works, why not use that?

Sam


-----Original Message-----
From: George Leatherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 4:14 PM
To: Samuel Hill
Subject: Re: Upper Case NOT Allowed in UserName Authentication


virtual users="None"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Samuel Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 2:01 PM
Subject: RE: Upper Case NOT Allowed in UserName Authentication


> What mailer are you using?
> 
> QMAIL, What?
> Is it vpopmail or are you using some sort of sendmail thing?
> 
> Sam
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Leatherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 4:02 PM
> To: Samuel Hill
> Subject: Re: Upper Case NOT Allowed in UserName Authentication
> 
> 
> Thank You for responding....
> 
> I do have customers with  Upper/Lower case usernames and passwords and

> they do know that they are case sensitive.  But apparently something 
> along the authentification doesn't.
> 
> I've used both  checkpassword-pam  and /etc/tmda-cgi clear text but 
> neither accept Upper Case.
> 
> I entered  JOE as the username - why is getpwnam() returning it in 
> LOWER case?
> str='getpwnam(): name not found: joe'
> 
> 
> Here's a snip from a wrong password   (I thought that any program that
> returns  0 is authenticated)
> 
> Capturing the debug stream...
> Setting up file authentication with file '/etc/tmdauth' Setting up 
> checkpw authentication with '/var/qmail/bin/checkpwd -sradius' Auth 
> program is '/var/qmail/bin/checkpwd -sradius -sradius' Trying checkpw 
> method UID = 0, EUID = 0 Successful pipe(). Successful fork(), PID = 
> 6566 PID = 6566, status = 256 Authentication returned: 0
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you Sam!
> George
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Samuel Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 12:58 PM
> Subject: RE: Upper Case NOT Allowed in UserName Authentication
> 
> 
> > I think it is pretty standard security to be strict on
> > username/password and case. What is wrong with just telling your
users
> 
> > that the username and password is case sensitive?
> >
> > You can modify the html template (in the template directory) with a
> > statement.
> >
> > Is the problem that your users have some with upper case
> > usernames/passwords?
> >
> > PS. I think your emails are in html or something, people will not
> > respond to those.
> >
> > Sam
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Behalf Of George Leatherman
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 2:09 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Upper Case NOT Allowed in UserName Authentication
> >
> >
> > Howdy,
> >
> > I've installed the latest tmda and tmda-cgi with Blue patch on a
> > Linux9.1 machine. I use  /etc/tmda  mode 400 for plaintext 
> > username/password authentification - simple enough but
> > ALL  username/password  combinations MUST be in lower case before it
> is
> > authenticated.
> > Any username/password charactures in UPPER case results in WRONG 
> > PASSWORD with the source message of
> >
> > Username z2ycrnuc not found in system.
> > str='getpwnam(): name not found: z2ycrnuc'
> >
> > The username I inputed was   Z2yCRnuc
> >
> >
> > I've tried  checkpassword-pam also
"/var/qmail/bin/checkpassword-pam
> > -slogin"
> > This reports the same after recompiling.   Using checkpassword with
> POP3
> > I do
> > get authenticated.
> >
> > Is there a workaround or am I not seeing something I should?  I
> > appreciate your help with this great program and any comments with
be 
> > absorbed too!
> >
> > George
> >
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> >
> 
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