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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: why buy BSDI ?
References: <4aj80t$gus@news.voicenet.com> <4arkvc$rmn@sanson.dit.upm.es> <30D22BA2.4954E1CF@execu.comshare.com> <DJror9.3q5@ritz.mordor.com> <4b31k8$b7d@orion.cc.andrews.edu>
Organization: Mordor International
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 03:44:28 GMT
Message-ID: <DJtEE5.103@ritz.mordor.com>
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Andrew Gillham (gillham@andrews.edu) wrote:
: In article <DJror9.3q5@ritz.mordor.com> ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) writes:
: >
: >The only real reason I haven't switched my BSDI 1.0 box over
: >to FreeBSD 2.1 is because I've been unable to get a popserver
: >working correctly.  Qpopper compiles, but won't correctly 
: >validate user passwords on FreeBSD 2.1.  (I got qpopper from 
: >the ports section of ftp.freebsd.org).  It seems to have
: >problems with the shadow passwords (as near as I can tell).

: Hmm, hate to ask the obvious, but you installed DES right?
: I have qpopper running on a NetBSD/i386 1.1 machine fine, and
: the only password related difference between it and FreeBSD
: _should_ be the DES .vs. MD5 stuff.  My NetBSD machine uses
: shadow passwords also.

I just installed the DES stuff and it still doesn't work.  Qpopper
claims that passwords thrown at it (I'm using Eudora for testing)
are incorrect.  I'm using the make.44bsd makefile.  I'm sure there's
something obvious going wrong right under my nose, but I can't see it.
The system is definitely using DES because I updated the shadow
password file and see the usual DES encrypted password fields.

Sigh...Any (and I mean ANY) tips/suggestions would be welcome.

Best regards,

Chris
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