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On 21 Dec 99, at 20:36, bert hubert wrote:
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
Petr Novotny wrote:
On 21 Dec 99, at 20:27, Michael Neubert wrote:
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup
michael.neubert.de /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d
/home/$USER/.mailspool/
Will not work. At the moment inetd is reading the file, it
I'm an newbie to qmail (and also linux) and hope to find help.
After setting up qmail on SuSE-Linux 6.1 I found a problem with my
pop3-server.
When contacting the pop3-server the messages "authorization failed"
appears. I start the pop3-server in /etc/inetd.conf with this line:
pop3 stream tcp
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
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 08:36:07PM +0100, bert hubert wrote:
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
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 08:40:06PM +0100, bert hubert wrote:
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 08:36:07PM +0100, bert hubert wrote:
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
