Subject: Re: imapd installation questions

From: Highway 'Nakoruru' YAH! <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1993 12:19:44 -0500 (EST)

When I tried logging into imapd manually, this is the result.

telnet w3eax.umd.edu 143 
Trying 128.8.198.73 ...
Connected to w3eax.umd.edu.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK w3eax.umd.edu IMAP2bis Service 7.5(72) at Sat, 25 Dec 1993 12:13:06 +0000
a.001 login highway <password>
a.001 NO Bad LOGIN user name and/or password
a.002 logout
* BYE w3eax.umd.edu IMAP2bis server terminating connection
a.002 OK LOGOUT completed
Connection closed by foreign host.

Any ideas?
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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1993 11:46:11 -0800 (PST)

Almost certainly, the problem is that the server_login() routine isn't
cognizant of the password system (probably shadow passwords) which you are
using.  Unfortunately, there are so many different versions of shadow
passwords that I've found it nearly impossible to keep up.  The current Linux
code assumes ``standard'' (not shadow) password keeping.

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From: Mike Grupenhoff <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1993 21:48:00 -0500 (EST)

> code assumes ``standard'' (not shadow) password keeping.

Adding #include <shadow.h> and linking with -lshadow may work.  The next 
version of libc will support shadow passwords transparently, without 
having to recompile.

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