[imp] poppassd and IMP problems<<< please help ! ;-)

[Dave Wilson]

Hi Chuck,

Ok I have found the problem, but not the solution.

pico /etc/login.defs in Slackware has an option:
OBSCURE_CHECKS_ENAB     no

Which is set to yes by default and prompts root for a new password 3 times
if the password is short/too easy etc.
When set to no... poppassd changes the password perfectly except that
/usr/bin/passwd prints out some crap like below which seems to confuse
poppassd and return error 500:
Changing password for <user>
Enter the new password (minimum of 5, maximum of 127 characters)
Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers.
New password:
Re-enter new password:
Password changed.

In IMP this shows up as error: "the following error occurred while
processing your request" "Changing password for <user>"

As I have said poppassd does change the password 100%, so my IMP password
change feature is working... it's just a bit annoying having it say
"following error has occurred" ;-)
I have tried to modified & recompiled poppassd.c, but I cannot get it to
ignore all the garbage before the "New password:" prompt.

Anyone have any ideas ?
It seems that no one has a modified poppassd.c for Slackware ;(
Thanks.




Kindest regards
David Wilson
The S.A Internet




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-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Hagenbuch [mailto:chuck@horde.org]
Sent: 19 January 2001 05:06
To: imp@lists.horde.org
Subject: Re: [imp] poppassd and IMP problems<<< please help ! ;-)


Quoting Hernan Morales <hernanm@la14.com>:

> I've noted that problem when the password contains an space caracter ('
').
> When the password doesn't have an space caracter everything works fine, at
> least for me!!!

Does anyone know what kind of quoting the poppasswd protocol
expects/accepts?

-chuck

--
Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
Entropy. It's what's for dinner.

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