Andrew, I see. Well, fortunately, I tried to re-compile the courierpassd module again and then it works already. This could happened may be I did edit some of the courier source tree configuration file in the previous installation. Thanks a lot anyway.
Regards, Allien > If you can't change passwords using authtest, then that means the > problem is with courier's configuration. This isn't a squirrelmail or > courierpassd problem. > > If you didn't specify a location for the authdaemon.passwd program at > compile time, I'd go looking in the config.log file in the courier > source tree to determine where courier expects to find it. On my system, > it resides in /usr/local/libexec/courier-imap/authlib. This is where all > the other authdaemon* programs live as well. I'm using FreeBSD 4.8 and I > installed courier-imap from the ports tree so my system might differ > from yours in where it puts things. > > I use userdb authentication myself and it works fine for me. > > I don't know if it will be any help, but you can check out my web site > which describes my mail system (including my courier and squirrelmail > setups) in some detail. Go to > http://www.arda.homeunix.net/mailsetup.shtml. > > Andrew > > Allien Nation wrote: >> Andrew, >> >> Im using Courier, Courier-MTA-0.44.0 which I specify in the mail >> earlier. >> It is okay by default right? So where should I copy the >> authdaemon.passwd >> to? The erros shwon seems like it reading the wrong directory is it? But >> I >> check the authdaemon.passwd in the error directory, the file is there. >> >> Im using plain userdb for authentication. >> >> I apply the authtest, as follows: >> # ./authtest USER PASSWD >> Authenticated: module authdaemon >> Home directory: /home/mail >> UID/GID: 501/502 >> Maildir: /home/mail/USER >> AUTHADDR=USER >> AUTHFULLNAME=<none> >> >> # ./authtest USER PASSWD NEWPASSWD >> Authentication FAILED! >> >> Any idea? Thanks. >> >> >> Regards, >> Allien >> >> >> >>>Are you using courier or courier-imap? With courier-imap, you need to >>>activate the password changing functionality of the authentication >>>modules using thie option --with-authchangepwdir at compile time. Even >>>if you do this, I've found that I still have to copy the >>>authdaemon.passwd program to the location I specified with the above >>>option. >>> >>>Which authentication mechanism are you using; userdb, pam, postgresql? >>> >>>Can you use the authtest program included with courier to change your >>>password? >>> >>>Andrew >>> >>>Allien Nation wrote: >>> >>>>Hi all, >>>> >>>>Im newbie for Squirrelmail. Im doing it in Solaris 9 using >>>>Courier-MTA-0.44.0. >>>>Im configuring Squirrelmail-1.4.2 Change Password plugin using >>>>courierpasswd-0.30. Fyi, Im using Tcpserver to manage it. >>>> >>>>Everything seems okay. But when I trying to change password, I got the >>>>error as follows in my log file: >>>>Nov 19 19:48:47 xxx.yyy.zz courierpassd[2883]: [ID 435637 daemon.crit] >>>>authdaemon: failed to execute yes/authdaemon.passwd >>>>Nov 19 19:48:47 xxx.yyy.zz courierpassd[2882]: [ID 253890 auth.error] >>>>failed to change password for user Allien >>>> >>>>This error keep appear once I changed password. >>>>I do 'telnet xxx.yyy.zz 106" and the result was as follows: >>>>200 courierpassd v0.30 hello, who are you? >>>>user Allien >>>>200 Your password please. >>>>pass ********* >>>>200 Your new password please. >>>>newpass ******* >>>>500 Server error, password not changed. >>>>Connection to xxx.yyy.zz closed by foreign host. >>>> >>>>Anyone has fixed this before? or any idea or URL to solve this? >>>>Thanks. >>>> >>>>Regards, >>>>Allien >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>------------------------------------------------------- >>>>This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. >>>>Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? 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