From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 12 03:21:17 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id DAA05790 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 03:21:17 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA05783 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 03:21:11 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA07714; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 12:21:06 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA04827; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 12:21:06 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA19291; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 12:05:40 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511121105.MAA19291@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 2.0.5-R, Cyrus IMAPd, getpwnam() ? To: jem@mystery.milleredp.com (John Edward Miller) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 12:05:39 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511120519.VAA21285@mystery.milleredp.com> from "John Edward Miller" at Nov 11, 95 10:21:20 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 516 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As John Edward Miller wrote: > > The problem: Upon attempting to log in, no matter what user, all > passwords fail validation. If I start imapd as a command at a shell > prompt and just talk to it via stdin/stdout, correct passwords do > allow login. Does your imapd run under (effective) UID 0? That's a requirement for shadowed password scenarios. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)