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To: blaz@gold.amis.net
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Subject: Re: Cyrus IMAP Server - Can't log into server
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In a message dated 97-09-25 16:54:59 EDT, blaz@gold.amis.net writes:
  
>  I was having the same problems. The trouble is, that pwcheck is started
>  as root (from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cyrus.sh) and creates its socket in
>  /var/pwcheck as root so the imap server (which is running as user cyrus)
>  cannot access it. I have changed /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cyrus.sh to be:
>  
>  if [ -x /usr/local/cyrus/bin/pwcheck ]
>  then
>          /usr/local/cyrus/bin/pwcheck & && sleep 2 && chown cyrus /var/
> pwcheck/pwcheck && echo -n ' pwcheck'
>  fi

Thanks for the tip, it now works with no problems, this solution should go
into the Cyrus port.

>  and now it works just perfectly. Actually I have hacked pwcheck so that
>  it reads passwords from my private user database in addition to the
>  password file, so that I don't clutter up my password file unnecesary
>  with pop accounts.
>  
Your hacks sound interesting, as I was planning on looking for/creating a
RADIUS aware version of the pwcheck program.

Does Anybody have a RADIUS aware version of the pwcheck program?

Scot W. Hetzel