qpopper and /etc/shadow
2007-12-25 11:15:00
Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com>
Michael Jarvis <michaelj@burrito.insource.com>
daves@adnc.com (David Schiffrin)
Regards,
Charles
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Greetings! I have qpopper 2.1.4-r3 installed on a Sol2.5 machine, and I can't get it to accept a password when I telnet into port 110. The session looks like this:
cobra:charles-[42]-->telnet cobra 110
Trying xx.xx.xx.xx...
Connected to cobra.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK QUALCOMM Pop server derived from UCB (version 2.1.4-R3) at cobra starting.
user charles
+OK Password required for charles.
pass xxxxxxxx
-ERR Password supplied for "charles" is incorrect.
+OK Pop server at cobra signing off.
Connection closed by foreign host.
In checking the archives, I ran across a summary that seemed to imply that this was due to passwords being in /etc/shadow, rather than passwd. They didn't elaborate, though, because they were running NIS+. This makes sense to me, as we have the same package installed on an HP-UX machine, and it works fine.
So my question is twofold: Can I get qpopper to get passwords out of the password file? And, barring that, how hard is NIS+ to set up in a multi-computer (100+) environment?
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