On Monday 14 March 2005 05:22 pm, Claas Langbehn wrote: > Jeremy Kitchen wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > I would like to allow my vpopmail users to connect to my news server > > > with their username/password. > > > > ok > > > > > inn's reader.conf can use an auth program to authenticate the user. > > > Can I somehow use vchkpw for this? > > > > perhaps. I would ask them. Also, since vchkpw is a > > checkpassword-compliant program, check out the checkpassword interface > > documentation at > > http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd/interface.html > > Okay, I found out, that inn passes these lines: > > ClientAuthname: user\r > ClientPassword: pass\r > > to the authenticator program. Even though you pointed me to > http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd/interface.html I have problems to write a shell > wrapper to chkpw. Maybe you can give me a hint, how I can use vchkpw > from a shell script. In particular, how I feed vchkpw with username and > password. > > I tried > > echo -e $USERNAME\0$PASSWORD\0$TIMESTAMP\0 | vchkpw > > but with no success.
http://qmailwiki.org/Qmail-checkpassword has a documented method of how to test your checkpassword program via command line.. perhaps it can give you a starting point. -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kitchen ++ Systems Administrator ++ Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ inter7.com ++ 866.528.3530 ++ 815.776.9465 int'l kitchen @ #qmail #gentoo on EFnet IRC ++ scriptkitchen.com/qmail GnuPG Key ID: 481BF7E2 ++ jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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