Re: (no subject)

This is mentioned specifically in the neomail.conf file, and setup.pl
actually checks for a master.passwd -- not sure why it didn't set it up
preoperly at the beginning.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Lee" <[email protected]>
To: "'Tod D. Ihde'" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 1:57 PM
Subject: RE: [Neomail-users] (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]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tod D.
> 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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