Re: [LI] MD5 passwords

[Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Sunil Sarat wrote:

> I've configured a new mail server (red hat 6.0 from CHIP). Everything went
> fine except for the pop3 clients are facing the problem. I've enabled MD5
> and shadow passwords during installation. I think this is where the clients
> are facing problem. Clients are able to send messages to port 25 but unable
> to retrieve mails from pop server. Is there any way to disable this MD5
> and/or Shadow passwords.

This has nothing to do with passwords - you need to enable the pop3
service in /etc/inited.conf, then run "killall -HUP inetd". Naturally I
assume that you have installed imap/pop3 support (rpm -ivh
/mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/imap*.rpm).

Atul


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