Thanks for the info.  As qmail-ldap is able to receive mail for system accounts, I'm 
surprised that auth_pop is not able to authenticate for system accouts.  O well....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ricardo Cerqueira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: auth_pop on system account
Sent: 28 Sep 2001 20:00:51 +0100

> 
> On Fri, 2001-09-28 at 10:48, Martin Kong wrote:
> > Can auth_pop authenticate against normal system account (i.e.
> > /etc/passwd user)?  
> 
> No
> 
> > I tried 
> > 
> > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup hostname /var/qmail/bin/auth_pop pwd
> > 
> > after I enter the "pass secret"...it keeps saying "Authorization
> > failed".  Is it working as designed?  May be it can only authenticate
> > against LDAP account?
> 
> If you want both passwd and LDAP, my advice is to use PAM (configured to
> use LDAP and passwd, at least), and using a PAM-enabled checkpassword.
> 
> RC
> 
> 
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> Ricardo Cerqueira 
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