Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 15:57:46 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: proot@iaces.com (Paul T. Root), questions@FreeBSD.ORG (Questions FreeBSD) Subject: Re: Elm and DES password problems Message-ID: <200006212057.e5LKvkf61817@iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <20000621132839.E214@dialin-client.earthlink.net> from "Crist J. Clark" at Jun 21, 2000 01:28:39 PM
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> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 03:17:27PM -0500, Paul T. Root wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 09:17:58AM -0500, Paul T. Root wrote: > > > > Over the weekend I finally upgraded from 2.2.8-Stable to > > > > 3.4-Release (I'll get to Stable soon). But I'm have a couple > > > > of annoying problems. > > > > > > > > 1) I recompiled elm from Ports (version 2.4 ME+ PL61). And it > > > > can't delete any messages from any mailbox! I hit delete and > > > > it marks it 'D', but when I quit (q) or re-sync ($), it resets > > > > everything and all the messages are back. So I compiled up again, > > > > going through the Configure manually, and it does the same thing. > > > > > > > > Next, I compiled up mutt and that works fine. > > > > > > > > Any ideas. > > > > > > Is your mailbox big? I've had problems when elm runs out of scratch > > > space in /tmp. Are any error messages reported by elm? What is its > > > exit value? Perms on your mailspool? > > > > Nope, the mailbox is empty. > > /tmp has plenty of space: > > mfs:37 87199 36 80188 0% /tmp > > > > And /var/mail is: > > drwxrwxr-x 2 bin mail 512 Jun 21 14:47 . > > > > And it's not just my main mailbox, it's also $HOME/Mail/* > > > > I just recompiled 2.5p2 from scratch. No joy. I'm using flock locking > > not dot or fcntl. > > elm also can be fooled by NFS mounts, but that does not look like it > is the problem. You got me here. It's very strange. No, no nfs. > > > > 2) I have DES passwords in /etc/master.passwd, and pop3 doesn't work > > > > and tac_plus doesn't work. I have the DES package installed and scrypto > > > > too. I know this is a simple one, but it's got me confused. > > > > > > But you can log in and stuff? Let's just see, > > > > > > $ ls -l /usr/lib/libcrypt.* > > [snip correct links to use DES] > > Are you sure it is a passwd issue? What happens when you log into the > POP3 server manually, > > $ telnet popserver 110 > <Server greeting> > USER someuser > <Server response> > PASS somepasswd > > What exactly do you see? Yeah, I already did this. And yes, it is the right password. 37# telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.iaces.com. Escape character is '^]'. +OK horton.iaces.com POP3 3.3(18) w/IMAP2 client (Comments to MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU) at Wed, 21 Jun 2000 15:52:05 -0500 (CDT) user proot +OK User name accepted, password please pass XxXXXXX -ERR Bad login Oh, I found something else out. I deleted my passwd in /etc/master.passwd and recreated it. It makes a DES hash. And things don't work. BUT, I use htpasswd from apache to create a password and it creates an MD5 hash. I put that in /etc/passwd and everything works! This has just got to be a confused library thing. > > > > 3) I only quickly tried to compile amanda 2.4.1p1 with the config I made > > > > when I compiled it for 2.2.8 and that failed. I haven't tried again, > > > > but has anybody got words of wisdom for this? > > > > > > Some error messages? > > > > I got this one going. I just hadn't had time to look at it. I'm in the > > process of figuring out chg-chio. > > Oh, man. I had some fun with that. I changed jobs before I got around > to getting that all to work. I'm getting to be that way too. I'm reading thru the glue script (perl) but I don't know where it gets called from or what it gets called with. -- An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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