[sork] Problem with poppassd

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Paolo Cavicchini <p.cavicchini at ifinet.it>:

> I think to have correctly installed poppassd-1.8.3.tar.gz, but when I try to

Test it by hand.  Connect to it via telnet and feed it the commands.
Something like:

% telnet localhost 106
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 poppassd v1.4 hello, who are you?
user test
200 your password please.
pass testpassword
200 your new password please.
newpass newpassword

And see where/if it fails.

> change my password, it seems don't work.
> I checked /var/log/messages and found this:
>
> "Apr  3 18:30:12 mbox1 poppassd[5285]: old password is incorrect for user
> myusername"

Test by hand.  Maybe you need to supply "myusername at domain" to it?

Other options are encryption problems, or "strange" passwords that cause
problems...

> The problem is that my old password is correct...

Sure it is.  But is it making it to the poppassd daemon correctly?
Could also be the username perhaps...

> Has anyone encountered the same problem?

Nope, not me.

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Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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