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Date:      Sun, 12 Nov 1995 12:05:39 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        jem@mystery.milleredp.com (John Edward Miller)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.0.5-R, Cyrus IMAPd, getpwnam() ?
Message-ID:  <199511121105.MAA19291@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199511120519.VAA21285@mystery.milleredp.com> from "John Edward Miller" at Nov 11, 95 10:21:20 pm

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As John Edward Miller wrote:
> 
> The problem: Upon attempting to log in, no matter what user, all
> passwords fail validation.  If I start imapd as a command at a shell
> prompt and just talk to it via stdin/stdout, correct passwords do
> allow login.

Does your imapd run under (effective) UID 0?  That's a requirement for
shadowed password scenarios.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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