PAM problems
Hi,
I'm trying to get a pop server (cucipop run from inetd in this case)
working and am having problems with authentication.
/etc/pam.d/cucipop contains this:
auth required pam_unix_auth.so
account required pam_unix_acct.so
This is what happens when I try to login:
dcpurton@twoflower:~$ telnet localhost 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK Cubic Circle's v1.31 1998/05/13 POP3 ready
<706400005e86203c@twoflower>
USER dcpurton
+OK dcpurton selected
PASS <hidden>
-ERR cucipop: Invalid password or username (check case)
QUIT
+OK Not really your day, is it?
Connection closed by foreign host.
dcpurton@twoflower:~$
The following is sent to xconsole:
Dec 19 22:51:50 twoflower cucipop[25712]: connect from localhost
Dec 19 22:52:00 twoflower PAM_unix[25709]: authentication failure;
(uid=8) -> dcpurton for cucipop service
The same thing happens for all users (except root which appears to fail
because cucipop denys root logins rather than for pam reasons)
I've poked around in /etc/security and both the cucipop and pam man
pages, but as I'm not sure exactly why it's failing I havn't had much
luck.
cheers
dc
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