Hi guys, I had qmail-smtp/smtpauth (standard Gentoo install) working fine with vchkpw previously.
I then decided that I needed to change the user ID for vpopmail to get a suexec script working as the vpopmail user... So I stopped qmail, changed the UID and GID from 89 to 1004, and did: find / -user 89 -print0 | xargs -0 chown 1004 find / -group 89 -print0 | xargs -0 chgrp 1004 This had catastrophic effects after services were restarted. Nothing that used vchkpw could authenticate, including qmail-send, qmail-smtpd, and bincimap. I struggled for a while to figure out why, but couldn't find any logical explanation. So in desperation, I again stopped all running services, changed the passwd and group files back, and did: find / -user 1004 -print0 | xargs -0 chown 89 find / -group 1004 -print0 | xargs -0 chown 89 Upon restarting services, I've found that bincimap authenticates okay, and qmail-send delivers mail (a huge improvement). However qmail-smtpd cannot authenticate, and any time I try to send mail I get the "oops, unable to write to pipe and I can't auth" error. If I change the password program from /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw back to /bin/checkpassword, I can authenticate and send mail fine, but this is not acceptable in the long-term as most of my mail users do not have machine accounts. Could anyone advise me as to what might be going wrong here? Your help is greatly appreciated! -- Casey Allen Shobe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
