At 10:53 AM 2/24/97 -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote: >Hi, > >To get poppassd working under Debian 1.2, I had to change the P2 string in >line 184 of poppassd.c from: > >"enter new password: " > >to: > >"changing password for *\nenter new password: " > >This fixes the problem of getting the poppassd program hung while waiting >for passwd to finish execution. > >Are you the right person to report this or a need to got to someone else? I >think a new version is needed to solve this since the package does not work >out of the box. > >Finally, there are problems when the user types an invalid password (less >than 6 chars. or without both numbers and letters). To solve this I execute >the passwd command with the -o option, to force any password typed to be >valid. I do not know how to fix poppassd to work without doing this. The >problem seems to be that the passwd program is too picky and behaves very >interactively (too much, I would say.)
Please submit this as a bug to our bug tracking system. I just installed the package and I can't change the password with Eudora either. It times out waiting for the server to respond. Regards -- ___________________________________________________________________ Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au ___________________________________________________________________ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
