RE: (no subject)

This applied to my installation of Free-BSD as well.  4.6

Had to use /etc/master.passwd to get it work.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
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Ihde
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 11:02 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Neomail-users] (no subject)


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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