[TriLUG] redhat, ipop3d, /etc/cram-md5.pwd, and ldap

Rodent of Unusual Size Ken.Coar at Golux.Com
Thu Jul 22 12:48:16 EDT 2004


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please bear with me; i timeslice to a ruinous degree and i don't
remember exactly how i got here..

for a long time i was using qpopper for my pop accounts.  in fact, i
still do for non-secure ones.  for secure ones i managed to set up
ipop3d using ssl, so it uses a different port and doesn't interfere
with the legacy qpopper users.  in order to get ipop3d to work,
however, i ended up having to create /etc/cram-md5.pwd and hardcoding
the usernames and pop passwords of the people able to use the secure
interface.

there are a number of drawbacks for this, not least being that the
file could be inadverternly exposed and users cannot change their
own passwords.

i'd *like* to

a) switch all pop usage -- ssl, hashed passwords, plaintext passwords,
   and otherwise over to ipop3d, and
b) i'd like to have the authentication come out of an ldap directory,
   so i could set something up to let people change their own
   passwords.

unfortunately, i'm not having a lot of luck googling for how-tos and
instructions, so i'm hoping someone here might have bookmarked some
urls that might be shared..

thanks!
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Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini  http://Ken.Coar.Org/
Author, developer, opinionist      http://Apache-Server.Com/

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