Re: Checkpassword 0.90 + Redhat 9.0

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 09:40:52AM -0700, asdf wrote:
> Morning folks, hope this isn't a tired question, but I can't find it on 
> google, so here it goes..
> 
> I installed checkpassword, did the pop test ( as in the installation web 
> page ) as root, no problems. su to qmaild, and auth fails. 
> 
> Now, I've made sure that qmaild can read /bin/checkpassword, /etc/passwd 
> and even /etc/shadow ( although I don't *think* it needs it, but I've 
> been wrong before ), and I still get the same errors.  Root, as noted 
> earlier, hasn't got this problem, and it works just fine, so I'm banking 
> on this being a permissions issue, somewhere.

It must be run as root, since it has to be able to change uid to the owner of
the maildir. Only root can do that.

Chris