Thank you /so/ much for this information! I'll be attempting this fix over the next hour or two.
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:10:04 +0200, Linux-Guru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 18. August 2004 23:22 schrieb Matthew Walker: > > I saw this was discussed a month or two ago, but no conclusion seemed > > to be reached. > I have been the one who had this problem. > We reached some kind of conclusion (see below). > > > > > I have qmail 1.03, and vpopmail 5.4 installed, and everything works > > except for SMTP AUTH. I get segfaults or bad user errors, depending on > > whether or not vchkpw is owned by root or by the vpopmail user. > > I tried also all these combinations with no success. > > > > > Here's a transcript from a session where vchkpw was owned by vpopmail. > > When it's owned by root, the last line changes to simply say the > > authentication failed. > > > [...] > > > 454 oops, problem with child and I can't auth (#4.3.0) > > Exactly! > I wrote a bug-report, but nobody seemed to be interested. (I will have a quick > look into the tracker when I've finished this mail, but I don't think > anything happened). > > Erwin Hoffmann (www.fehcom.de) spent some time looking through the code. His > personal summary was that the easiest way would be to rewrite the whole > vchkpw because there seems to be quite much unused and/or useless (and > buggy(?)) code which makes it really hard to do a debug of this problem. > > But: We found a workaround! > 1. Take vpopmail in any version of your choice, configure, compile and install > it. > 2. Take vpopmail-5.2.2, configure and compile it. Do NOT install it! > 3. Rename your current '/var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw' in whatever you want. > 4. Copy the vchkpw-binary from your vpopmail-5.2.2-directory into > '/var/vpopmail/bin/' > 5. Test it. See that it works. Have fun. > There is only one disadvantage: CRAM-MD5 doesn't work with 5.2.2. > Everything else will work fine (I am running it against MySQL without any > problems). > > HTH > > Greetings > > Tobias >
