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It is hard to say, since I have installed only on FreeBSD 5.1, but I
haven't done anything to unusual to my machine.  That is unless installing
mailman and postfix is a bit unusual.

I would expect this to recur.  That is why I am hanging on the list for a
while.  If you are having a bit of trouble.  I can try my best to help you
out.

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Tod D. Ihde wrote:

> Is this true with all freebsd installs, or special-cased for your install?
>
> Tim Legg wrote:
>
> > Well, well, well.
> >
> > The encrypted password is stored in /etc/master.passwd instead of
> > /etc/passwd.  It would have been nice to remember that before I spent all
> > this time staring at perl books and studying on the MD5 hash ;-)
> >
> > I thought I would run setup.pl and see what happened when I tried this as
> > the password path.  And then neomail worked perfectly.
> >
> > I am still going to study up on how the encrypted data is generated in
> > master.passwd.  I have been trying to reverse engineer the process.  I
> > posted a relevant question on [email protected] under the
> > e-mail [email protected].
> >
> > I thank you for the help you provided.  I am going to hang on the list a
> > little while longer now that I have a faint idea how the software works.
> >
> > Below are a few notes for those who read archives:
> >
> > FreeBSD 5.1
> >
> > 1.  I installed postfix from the ports install and the mail
> > spool group ID is called mailnull, not mail as setup.pl thinks it might
> > be.
> >
> > 2.  The relevant password file for FreeBSD is /etc/master.passwd not
> > /etc/passwd
> >
> > 3.  I am also running mailman which also uses cgi-bin.  This confused
> > setup.pl.  The cgi-bin location is (apache users like myself) is:
> >
> > /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin
> >
> > setup.pl thought it should be /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin
> >
> > On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Torsten Mueller wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >>Tim Legg schrieb:
> >>
> >>>This discovery shows that the only problem remaining is in regards to
> >>>authenticating passwords.  I am going to read up on how FreeBSD does it's
> >>>passwords over the next hour or so.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Agree,
> >>if you find the "perfect FreeBSD solution", keep us updated.
> >>
> >>Torsten
> >>
> >>
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