Re: Re: Incorrect password

From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 2:28 PM
Subject: [Neomail-users] Re: Incorrect password


> I guess I didn't explain properly...
>
> 1) /etc/shadow is specified correctly
> 2) checklogin.pl can read /etc/shadow just fine
> 3) suidperl is installed on the system
> 4) I have read the FAQ's and spent several hours trying to figure the
> problem out before attacking the mailing lists ;)
>
>
> I can run checkconfig.pl manually (ie: as a non-root user) and it
> reads and confirms the username/password, ie: if you manually type:
>
> #./checkconfig.pl
> /etc/shadow<cr>
> username<cr>
> password<cr>
> #echo $?
> 0
>
> If the username/password are incorrect it return '1' instead of '0'
> So checkconfig.pl is working fine.
>
> The trouble is that Perl gets the return value '13' no matter what
> username/password is entered. I know this because I have added a
> couple of extra "writelog()" lines in neomail.pl so I can see the
> variables at various stages in the login() subroutine.
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
>
<snip>

Hi Chris

Mark (Obantec) here. I run neomail on MCC. If you want to have a poke round
under SSH i can send you logins (off list).

Might help to compare?

Mark



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