Re: IMAP authentication is broken
On Thu, 09 Dec 1999, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
> Hello,
Hello
> I´m running potato and up to yesterday Wednesday I was happily
> accessing my mail from netscape using imapd. But with the latest
> update I made to the system imapd always refuses to authenticate
> my account (however imap was not updated). From the syslog:
>
> allegro imapd[1330]: AUTHENTICATE LOGIN failure host=allegro
>
> I can login to my machine with no problems and everything else,
> including inetd services, is running ok. Someone suggested a
> PAM-related problem. If this is the case, how do I trace the
> problem? any other suggestions?
Do you have a cram-md5.pwd file in /etc? If so, imapd as well as
ipopd will look in it for passwords instead of using PAM, you can
either put your passwords in the file or rename it. Look at
/usr/share/doc/libc-client4.[567]/md5.txt for a more detailed
explanation.
--
Ashley Clark
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