Can't authenticate to ipop3d

[Keith Morse]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Michael Hipp wrote:

> I just did a clean install of RH9 on a server that was running RH8, 
> everything is working great except that ipop3d won't authenticate any 
> users. Just says "Bad authentication". This was working fine on RH8 and 
> I don't remember putting any real effort into getting it working.
> 
> Log says stuff like:  Autologout user=??? host=[192.168.0.xxx]
> 
> Does it use some different authentication mechanism? Is there even a 
> config file for ipop3d?
> 


WAG here.  Take a look at /etc/xinetd.d/ipop3 and/or /etc/hosts.allow.