On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 08:27:05PM +0100, Michael Neubert wrote:
> I'm an newbie to qmail (and also linux) and hope to find help.
You've come to the right place.
> michael:~ # /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup host /bin/checkpassword pwd
> +OK <548.945710015@host>
> user linux
> +OK
> pass 12345
> /home/linux
> michael:~ #
>
> I have already checked the rights of /var/qmail... and
> /bin/checkpassword. All looks like described in the qmail
> INSTALL...-files.
You probably have shadow passwords. These cannot be read by any user but
root. This means that checkpassword needs to be 'set user id root', suid
root for short. Try this:
chown root:root /bin/checkpassword
chmod +s /bin/checkpassword
Regards,
bert hubert.
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