[horde] Problem using poppassd as backend....

[simon dcunha]

r u using pam .. check /etc/pam.d for poppassd file and disable auth check
there. cause pam by deafult uses dictornary to check for loose password






> Hello,
>
> I am using - Passwd: H3 (3.0). It is installed on Fedora Core 4 with
> poppassd from http://netwinsite.com/poppassd/#Unix_Installation
>
> Passwd Version
> Passwd: H3 (3.0)
> PHP Module Capabilities
> mcrypt: Yes
> mhash: Yes
> PEAR Modules
> PEAR Search Path (PHP's include_path):
> /var/www/html/horde/lib:.:/usr/share/pear
> PEAR: Yes
> Recent PEAR: Yes
> Crypt_CHAP: Yes
>
>
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 Jan Schneider wrote :
>>Zitat von Suraj Jadhav <sunracesuraj at rediffmail.com>:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I have configured popassd and its working fine. I am able to change
>> > passwords from passwd/horde. There is problem here...if I am using a
>> > password which fits in requirements of popassd then the password
>> > change happens, if the password is not fitting in requirements of
>> > poppassd still horde/passwd says that password have been changed -
>> > but in fact the poppassd has denied password change saying
>> > following...Has any one seen anything like this or am I doing
>> > anything wrong? Is it possible to capture poppassd error and display
>> > it to the user?
>> >
>> > When password change dose not work....
>> >
>> > [root at weboffice tmp]# telnet 127.0.0.1 106
>> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
>> > Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
>> > Escape character is '^]'.
>> > 200 poppassd v1.8.5 hello, who are you?
>> > user suraj
>> > 200 Your password please.
>> > pass Worthatry3
>> > 200 Your new password please.
>> > newpass letmein
>> > 500 PAM error: BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word
>> > 500 Server error, password not changed
>> > Connection closed by foreign host.
>> >
>> > When password change works...
>> >
>> > [root at weboffice tmp]# telnet 127.0.0.1 106
>> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
>> > Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
>> > Escape character is '^]'.
>> > 200 poppassd v1.8.5 hello, who are you?
>> > user suraj
>> > 200 Your password please.
>> > pass Worthatry2
>> > 200 Your new password please.
>> > newpass Worthatry3
>> > 200 Password changed, thank-you.
>>
>>Looking at the code this should be catched. What Passwd version are you
>> using?
>>
>>And btw, there is a separate mailing list for Passwd questions which
>>I'm Cc'ing.
>>
>>Jan.
>>
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