From: Ricardo \(Tru64 User\) (tru64user@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jul 27 2005 - 17:01:47 EDT
Thanks Ann.
>From your recommendations, I found out that a few
users had u_newcrypt at 2, while others had zero (0).
Correcting that has everyone happy in new qpopper.
Richard
--- Ann Majeske <Ann.Majeske@HP.com> wrote:
> Maybe the problem is with the encryption method.
> Enhanced Security has a few different built in
> encryption methods and it also has the capability
> to allow the system administrator to add their own
> encryption methods. Maybe pop3 doesn't recognize
> the encryption method in use on your system.
>
> Use edauth to look at the value of u_newcrypt in
> the default file (edauth -d d default). This is the
> encryption method used to encrypt new passwords
> on the system. It can also be overridden on a per
> user basis by putting it in the user's
> authentication
> database entry (edauth -g <username> to see if
> it's been defined for that username). The
> u_oldcrypt
> value in each user's authentication database entry
> is the encryption method used to encrypt the current
> password for that user.
>
> The default crypt value for Enhanced Security is 0
> which is bigcrypt. The crypt values currently
> defined in Enhanced Security (from
> /usr/include/prot.h:
> 0 AUTH_CRYPT_BIGCRYPT
> 1 AUTH_CRYPT_CRYPT16
> This one uses crypt16().
> 2 AUTH_CRYPT_OLDCRYPT
> This one uses crypt() like base security, but
> puts the
> result in the Enhanced Security authentication
> database
> instead of /etc/passwd.
> 3 AUTH_CRYPT_C1CRYPT
> This one uses crypt(), but puts the result in
> /etc/passwd even though you're running Enhanced
> Security. This attempt at a hybrid between
> Enhanced
> and Base security wasn't implemented very well,
> I
> wouldn't recommend trying this!
>
> If the u_newcrypt value is a negative number it is
> something that has been added by your system
> administrator, you'd have to ask them what it is.
>
> If you're having trouble getting pop3 to recognize
> Enhanced Security passwords you could try changing
> the encryption method for one user to each of the
> above values (then change their password so that the
>
> password is actually using the encryption method,
> check that u_oldcrypt for that user is the same as
> the
> u_newcrypt value you're trying) and then see if you
> can get that user to authenticate with pop3.
>
> Just an idea, may not have anything to do with your
> problem.
>
> Ann
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ricardo (Tru64 User)" <tru64user@yahoo.com>
> To: <tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 2:26 PM
> Subject: pop3 and C2
>
>
> > Hi All,
> > A followup to my own post 4 yrs ago. Still running
> > some tru64 v4.0g servers....problem with
> > qpopper-4.0.8, does not seem to like sia
> > passwords....even though i used ./configure
> > --enable-specialauth as in previous versions, this
> > time it is not working.
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > _Thanks
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> > --- Tru64 User <tru64user@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 06:39:28 -0800 (PST)
> > > From: Tru64 User <tru64user@yahoo.com>
> > > Subject: SUMMARY: pop3 and C2
> > > To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov
> > >
> > > Hi
> > > Thanks...........3 seconds later, saw this
> > >
> > > ./configure --enable-specialauth
> > >
> > > in TFM
> > >
> > > well, its all good.
> > > pop3 works once again.
> > >
> > > --- Tru64 User <tru64user@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi Guys,
> > > > Might be simple to many, but hey....
> > > > I downloaded qualcomm qpopper4.0.3 as
> suggested in
> > > > many previous posts to overcome c2 issues. The
> > > post
> > > > below suggests adding -DAUTH to the Makefile.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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