On Thu, 09 Dec 1999, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > Hello, Hello
> I´m running potato and up to yesterday Wednesday I was happily > accessing my mail from netscape using imapd. But with the latest > update I made to the system imapd always refuses to authenticate > my account (however imap was not updated). From the syslog: > > allegro imapd[1330]: AUTHENTICATE LOGIN failure host=allegro > > I can login to my machine with no problems and everything else, > including inetd services, is running ok. Someone suggested a > PAM-related problem. If this is the case, how do I trace the > problem? any other suggestions? Do you have a cram-md5.pwd file in /etc? If so, imapd as well as ipopd will look in it for passwords instead of using PAM, you can either put your passwords in the file or rename it. Look at /usr/share/doc/libc-client4.[567]/md5.txt for a more detailed explanation. -- Ashley Clark
