Re: [vchkpw] Who can tell me exactly how dir_control works?

2004-08-06 Thread Mark Richardson
> If your only problem is the user count (lucky you) you can manualy reset > the cur_users and it will begin wirking again. Ok now you make me worried... What other things have you run in to because that was my fear anyways: I don't understand why this doesn't work (well it just seems unimplement

[vchkpw] setuid root vchkpw

2004-08-06 Thread Hugh Beaumont
Hello All, I've been trying to find a method to run qmail + smtpd-auth + vpopmail with support for system accounts without running any of it as root. Can anyone tell me if this is possible? I believe it is impossible to have system account support without some part of the system running as root

[vchkpw] Matt Gregory is out of the office.

2004-08-06 Thread Matt . Gregory
I will be out of the office starting 08/06/2004 and will not return until 08/08/2004. I will respond to your message when I return. NOTICE: This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain le

Re: [vchkpw] setuid root vchkpw

2004-08-06 Thread Rick Widmer
Hugh Beaumont wrote: Hello All, I've been trying to find a method to run qmail + smtpd-auth + vpopmail with support for system accounts without running any of it as root. Can anyone tell me if this is possible? No. If any accounts are not owned by vpopmail:vchkpw it must be root so it can change

[vchkpw] alias problem

2004-08-06 Thread fmessere
Hi, I known that this isn't the right place for what i'm looking for, but I hope that someone can help me or redirect me to an howto. I have a mail server with qmail and vpopmail installed My mail account is insert in a lot of aliases so if someone send a mail to two or tree of this I receve the

Re: [vchkpw] alias problem

2004-08-06 Thread manvendra bhangui
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:22:17 +0200, fmessere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My mail account is insert in a lot of aliases so if someone send a mail to > two or tree of this I receve the same mail a lot of time. Is there a way to > avoid this? > google eliminate-dups -- Regards Manny "Unix is sim

[vchkpw] Alternative to qmail-autoresponder

2004-08-06 Thread Mário Gamito
Hi, I think i've posted here before about this, but i can't get qmail-autoresponder to work. It sends the vacation message to the original sender, alright, but it doesn't deliver the original messagem from him. qmail-send, logs shows that the message coming from the sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is

[vchkpw] POP before SMTP doesn't bypass RBL check

2004-08-06 Thread Dave
I am thinking this is client based, but at a loss; Have a server (qmail, vchkpw, sqwebmail, mysql...), has about 2500 email accounts on it, roaming users enabled using POP before SMTP auth. Tweaked the vmysql.c(vupdate_rules) and rebuilt vpopmail to add a skip to RBL checks for all authed users.

Re: [vchkpw] Who can tell me exactly how dir_control works?

2004-08-06 Thread Dave Goodrich
Mark Richardson wrote: If your only problem is the user count (lucky you) you can manualy reset the cur_users and it will begin wirking again. Ok now you make me worried... What other things have you run in to because that was my fear anyways: I don't understand why this doesn't work (well it jus

Re: [vchkpw] poppassd (in perl) for vpopmail+mysql

2004-08-06 Thread Nicholas Harring
Japheth Cleaver wrote: Hello all, I've written a small poppassd service (port 106) that is usable with vpopmail when using a MySQL back-end. I specifically wrote it to use with the SquirrelMail "change password" plugin (http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=21) when I had problems gett

Re: [vchkpw] setuid root vchkpw

2004-08-06 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Friday 06 August 2004 02:18 am, Hugh Beaumont wrote: > qmail-pop3d runs as vpopmail - everything works except system account > password checking ls -l /etc/shadow nuff said. -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kitchen ++ Systems Administrator ++ Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ www.i

Re: [vchkpw] setuid root vchkpw

2004-08-06 Thread Hugh Beaumont
--- Jeremy Kitchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 06 August 2004 02:18 am, Hugh Beaumont wrote: > > qmail-pop3d runs as vpopmail - everything works except system account > > password checking > > ls -l /etc/shadow > > nuff said. > > -Jeremy > Hi Jeremy, Thanks for the, um, help :) O

Re: [vchkpw] setuid root vchkpw

2004-08-06 Thread Hugh Beaumont
--- Rick Widmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe it is impossible to have system account support without some part of the > > system > running > > as root. Is this correct? > > Yes. > > > Do most people run qmail-pop3d + vpopmail as root? I used to do this but recently > > switched > o

Re: [vchkpw] setuid root vchkpw

2004-08-06 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Friday 06 August 2004 11:26 am, Hugh Beaumont wrote: > > > qmail-pop3d runs as vpopmail - everything works except system account > > > password checking > > ls -l /etc/shadow > > nuff said. > Thanks for the, um, help :) more like a hint :) > Obviously /etc/shadow is owned by root.root - this

Re: [vchkpw] setuid root vchkpw

2004-08-06 Thread Hugh Beaumont
--- Jeremy Kitchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't understand why you're so concerned with having the pop3 server run as > root. qmail-popup has no remote root holes (at least stock, which is what > most people use, as I don't think there are any patches out there that > directly affect q

Re: [vchkpw] setuid root vchkpw

2004-08-06 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Friday 06 August 2004 11:53 am, Hugh Beaumont wrote: > --- Jeremy Kitchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't understand why you're so concerned with having the pop3 server > > run as root. qmail-popup has no remote root holes (at least stock, which > > is what most people use, as I don't th