Can't authenticate to ipop3d

[Michael Hipp]

Keith Morse wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. The xinetd.d/ipop3 file is clean and exactly the same as the one 
that worked in RH8. The hosts.allow is empty meaning, I assume, allow 
everyone.

And I can telnet into port 110 and enter USER and PASS so it's not a 
basic network connectivity issue. It just says "Bad authentication" to 
every combo of user/pass I enter.

Still looking for ideas ...

Michael