Re: [Fwd: Re: [SM-USERS] Password Error]

[Ean K. <ea...@he...>]

si...@in... wrote:

> Besides, i still cannot telnet on 106 and i still cannot change my password.
> I read that change_pass uses PAM authentication. My users are systems
> users using /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow... Will change_pass work for me??

If you read the FreeBSD documentation, you would find that your 
/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files are controlled via PAM. The two files 
you mention are only there for backwards compatibility with older 
software that doesn't support PAM.

I'm afraid I missed what IMAP/POP server you are using but if it happens 
to be Courier-imap/pop3) then it defaults to using the passwd/shadow 
file for authentication (which works fine) but can be made to use PAM 
quite easily (which allows some additional restrictions through PAM).

> 
> Tomas,
> 
> does poppwd work with change_pass and systems users??
> 
> sim
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>If superserver closes connection - something wrong with command line
> 
> used to start the server or something wrong with the server.
> 
>>Sorry, missed the part that poppassd is broken in FreeBSD 5.x
>>
>>pkg_add -r poppwd
>>
>>inetd.conf line
>> pop3pw stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/poppwd poppwd