Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 15:24:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> Cc: Alan Batie <batie@rdrop.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange popper behavior Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.981001142818.27404C-100000@mercury.jorsm.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980926154836.006e0320@207.227.119.2>
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On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > > This may not be related, but a similar problem with a user/password that > would not work with popper, but would with telnet and ftp. Rather > puzzling, since I could change the username or password, but otherwise > it would give password incorrect. Even if I redid the password and > verified the DES was different. This was with qpoppper 2.50 on a 2.2.6 > system. Never checked if this was a problem on 2.2.7 with the lastest > port. Check user and group permissions on the mail file and .pop temp file. Incorrect permissions result in an (apparant) invalid username and password error in most pop mailers. This happens to us from time to time. I've written a perl script as an alternative to finger(1) called "toe". Provides a convenient way for techs to check mailbox perms and sizes (and other goodies) instead of `ls -l /var/mail/user; ls -l /var/mail/user.pop`. It's quite a bit customized for other things we do but if you're interested I'll share. $ toe jer Name: Jeremy Shaffner,,219-322-2180 Created: Aug 22 1997 Mail: Thu Oct 1 14:20:26 1998 Owned: jer.wheel Size: 738361 Last Dial-Up Login: Wed Sep 30 23:00 - 02:34 Last System Login: Thu Oct 1 14:49 still logged -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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