Somethings still up with new NSS?

[Jacques A. Vidrine]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 07:09:02PM +0900, NAKAJI Hiroyuki wrote:
> In my case, under following situation, no pop3 request is available: the
> error is, "Password supplied for \"user\" is incorrect."
> 
> o the system itself is NIS master server
> o there are some users on this host
> o POP3 server of Qpopper is running on this host
> o /etc/nsswitch.conf of this host has following three lines
>   hosts: files dns 
>   passwd: files
>   group: files
> 
> After I changed nsswitch.conf to
> 
> hosts: files dns 
> passwd:	files nis
> group:	files nis
> 
> the problem went away.
> 
> If "nis" is removed from passwd line in nsswitch.conf, for example,
> qpopauth cannot find user pop.
> 
> # qpopauth -list ALL
> qpopauth: "pop": userid unknown
> 
> When "nis" is added again, no problem.
> 
> # qpopauth -list ALL
> nakaji          : APOP

Dumb question: Are you sure that you have a user `pop' defined locally?
  % grep ^pop: /etc/master.passwd

What is the date of your sources?

Please run `pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd' to rebuild your database.
Afterwards, what is the output of `id pop' ?

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine   . NTT/Verio SME      . FreeBSD UNIX       . Heimdal
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