From: Ean K. <ea...@he...> - 2004-07-30 15:40:33
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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 |