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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!van-bc!uniserve!usenet From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: IMAP4 on BSDI? (Cyrus??) Date: 22 Dec 1996 21:30:49 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 33 Distribution: world Message-ID: <59k9aa$rq2@atlas.uniserve.com> References: <19961221075000.CAA20926@ladder01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc1.sdf.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.8 (beta 2) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5472 In article <19961221075000.CAA20926@ladder01.news.aol.com>, larrysb@aol.com says... > >I'm trying to get the Cyrus IMAP4 ver. 1.4 to compile and run properly on >BSDI 2.1. > >I did get it to compile, after hand tweaking the configure file, and a >little hack on setproctitle.c in the /imapd source files. > >When I finally got it in and running, everything seemed to work except for >user authentication. No matter who you login as, it always comes back >with "bad password nologin". So I turned on anonymous login with any >password, and bingo, anonymous login worked. > >It would seem that Cyrus and BSDI don't agree on how to do user >authentication. There's probably more stuff to deal with, but that is as >far as I got. > >Any ideas? I'd like to implement IMAP4 mail, but the budget will probably >only allow a "freeware" server. I also have a binary only distribution of >BSDI 2.1. Cyrus is the only server I've found so far. Maybe I should look >at something else? > >Thanks, and email would be appreciated. I suspect that you did not build and install the pwcheck daemon. Cyrus imapd runs as the cyrus user, but on BSDI, only root can read the encrypted passwd file. pwcheck is basically an authentication daemon that verifies passwords for impad. Tom