Charles Fry wrote: > > My fault for copying the paragraph from the webpage focusing on > courierpassd, and skipping some important introductory information that > also applied to other similar tools (courierpasswd and courieruserinfo). > Here is an updated long description, which hopefully underlines the > difference between courierpassd and poppassd: > > Courierpassd works with the Courier mail server user authentication > mechanism to allow changing a user's password from across a network. It > uses the same protocol as poppassd to obtain user IDs and passwords. > This can be used, for example, to allow users to change their passwords > from within various webmail programs. > . > Homepage: http://www.arda.homeunix.net/store/ > > Said in another way, this package is meant to work with courier-authlib, > which may manage passwords in a way that is inaccesible to poppassd. > > I apologize for the confusion which ensued from my lack of a proper > introduction of the package. > No problem. I just wanted to make sure that effort was not being needlessly duplicated. Though, the fact that poppassd can use PAM makes it quite flexible, IMO. However, I can understand the need/desire to have a tool specifically designed to interact with a particular mail server. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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