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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: problem: qpopper and passwords Date: 11 Aug 1995 15:07:47 +0200 Organization: Support The Free UNIX Systems Lines: 20 Message-ID: <40fkn3$2l0@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> References: <405d6s$vsb@cmi.hahnemann.edu> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc-sec.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <405d6s$vsb@cmi.hahnemann.edu>, Charles N. Owens <owensc@enc.edu> wrote: > I KNOW some of you folks out there must be using popper. What'd you do > to get it to work? Someone suggested that there may be some relation > between the presence or lack there-of of DES on my system having an > affect on poppers functioning. Should it? It can have an effect of course. 1. you'll have to link qpop with -lcrypt, 2. if you're using md5-based crypt, you'll have to check that qpop is compatible with this scheme (there is 8 bytes of salt instead of 2 and the encrypted password is 21 or 22 bytes long. 3. If you're using DES-based crypt, -lcrypt should be enough. [ Cc: to Charles ] -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-