Re: Bug#51668: imap 4.7 introduces login failure

[Stuart Ballard <sballard@netreach.net>]

"Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Matthew Eaton wrote:
> 
> > Package: imap
> > Version: 4.7-1
> >
> > With the new imapd 4.7, it no longer authenticates correctly. All the
> > other services still work fine, but imap 4.7 no longer authenticates
> > users, all logins are failures.
> >
> > Let me know if there's anything else I can try.
> >
> > Running the latest tator on an i586 (2.2.13)
> > Matt
> >
> 
> I'm Ccing Marcin because he has the exact same problem.  The thing is I
> have the exact same setup as the both of you and I'm not getting this
> problem.  Matt do you also have an /etc/cram-md5.pwd file?  If so are the
> permissions 0400/root/root? To both of you, I ask that you do an strace of
> the imapd process while it is attempting to authenticate and send me the
> output.  Meanwhile I'll do some more research on this.

When I had this problem, I read the relevant docs ;). Removing the
/etc/cram-md5.pwd file caused authentication to work in the old
(insecure) way. A better solution is to add the appropriate users to
this file.

HTH,
Stuart.