Re: Password incorrect

At 12:46 PM +0100 3/24/09, Sasa wrote:

>  Hi, I have a strange problem with QPopper 4.0.16 on Fedora Core 10.
>  I have installed QPopper with this option:
>
>  ./configure --enable-standalone --without-pam
>
>  I have created users called 'test' but when I try to check mail I 
> have always in log file:
>
>  Mar 24 12:27:27 localhost popper[6488]: test at 192.168.1.15 
> (192.168.1.15): -ERR [AUTH] Password supplied for "test" is 
> incorrect.
>  Mar 24 12:27:27 localhost popper[6488]: [AUTH] Failed attempted 
> login to test from host (192.168.1.15) 192.168.1.15

To get more detail, please enable tracing and repeat the steps.

To enable tracing in Qpopper:

1.  Do a 'make clean'
2.  Re-run ./configure, adding '--enable-debugging'.
3.  Edit the inetd.conf line for Qpopper, adding '-d' or '-t <tracefile-path>'.
4.  Send inetd (or xinetd) a HUP signal.

(Steps 3 and 4 are only needed if you use inetd (or xinetd).  In 
standalone mode, you can add '-d' or '-t <tracefile-path>' to the 
command line directly.)

(In either standalone or inetd mode, if you use a configuration file 
you can add 'set debug' or 'set tracefile = <tracefile>' to either a 
global or user-specific configuration file instead of steps 3 and 4.)

This causes detailed tracing to be written to the syslog or to the 
file specified as 'tracefile'.


At 8:40 PM -0400 3/28/09, Jim Cameron wrote:

>  I had the same problem with QPopper 4.0.16 on a Solaris system. I 
> was able to remedy the problem using ./configure 
> --enable-specialauth, which enables secure crypt or shadow 
> passwords. Solaris uses shadow passwords, which I believe Fedora 
> also uses by def
>  ault.

./configure tries to figure out on its own if --enable-specialauth is 
needed.  It may have guessed wrong in your case.  To help fix this, 
please do a 'make realclean' and re-reun ./configure with the same 
parameters you used before, capture the output, and send it to me. 
Also, please send the config.log and config.h files.

Thank you.

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