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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: why buy BSDI ?
Date: 20 Dec 1995 15:52:52 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) writes:

> 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.

I don't understand why you didn't use the pre-built package...

Just paranoia: your POP service runs with an effective UID of 0, right?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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