Re: (no subject)

Odd... Now I'm 2x confused. Ok, so, case already covered, but still 
failed. Hrmm.

I'll shut up now. ;)

  Tod.


Neo wrote:

> 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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