Somethings still up with new NSS?

[Jacques A. Vidrine]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 04:19:04PM +0900, NAKAJI Hiroyuki wrote:
> >>>>> In <86bryqx8w6.fsf at xa12.heimat.gr.jp> 
> >>>>>	NAKAJI Hiroyuki <nakaji at tutrp.tut.ac.jp> wrote:
> 
> > > Put the attached patch file in /usr/ports/mail/qpopper/files, and
> > > rebuild qpopper.  This will disable the built-in strlcpy and strlcat,
> > > and it should then work.
> 
> > Yes! It works now!!
> 
> Nope, sorry.
> 
> I have to reset the password of some users to avoid the qpopper error:
>
> Apr 30 15:38:33 boggy popper[43891]: user at foo.baa.tut.ac.jp (133.15.xx.yy): -ERR [AUTH] PAM authentication failed for user "user": authentication error (9) [pop_pass.c:483]
> Apr 30 15:38:33 boggy popper[43891]: [AUTH] Failed attempted login to user from host (foo.baa.tut.ac.jp) 133.15.xx.yy [pop_pass.c:1395]
>
> Of cource, I did pwd_mkdb again and again.
> 
> With or without "nis" in /etc/nsswitch.conf, this error occured. Is it
> just a qpopper's bug or, PAM or NSS related one?

I cannot know --- it looks like a normal password-mismatch failure
to me.  Are you sure you have things configured correctly?  Was this
working for you previously, and lately it is broken?  Does it work on
a pre-2003/04/17 -CURRENT system?

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