Can't authenticate to ipop3d (SOLVED!)

[Keith Morse]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Michael Hipp wrote:

> Well, problem solved. Turns out things were NOT authenticating correctly 
> on normal logins, hence ipop3d couldn't either. It fooled me because 
> everything I was doing used ssh keys to get in.

I must have glossed over that part of your mail.  I thought your telnet 
test did work.

> 
> Anyway, it does not work to copy the user entries from /etc/passwd, 
> /etc/shadow, /etc/group, /etc/gshadow from the old RH8 to the new 
> install of RH9. No doubt there is something more to be done.
> 

Interesting,  I certainly wouldn't have expected that behaviour either.


> Unless someone knows what it is, I'll just have to reset the other 
> passwords manually.
> 

Since I'm planning to go thru much the same upgrade on our mail server, I 
did a test in copying one user's info; passwd, shadow, group, gshadow and 
home, to the new server.  Logged in without errors.  I suspect your copy 
process was flawed.

How did you copy that info?