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 > > > -- > Ricardo Cerqueira > Novis Telecom - Engenharia ISP > Pra�a Duque Saldanha, 1, 7� E / 1050-094 Lisboa / Portugal > Tel: +351 2 1010 0000 - Fax: +351 2 1010 4459 >
