Bug 40952 – vm-pop3d ebuild fails to install vm-pop3d.pamd in /etc/pam.d

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Shaun Cloherty 2004-02-09 02:38:27 UTC]

emerge of vm-pop3d-1.1.6 proceeds smoothly but fails to install the supplied vm-pop3d.pamd config file in /etc/pam.d/vm-pop3d. This results in an;

-ERR Bad login

response from the server when clients connect as real (i.e. those listed in /etc/passwd, non-virtual) mail users.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge vm-pop3d
2. /etc/init.d/vm-pop3d start
3. telnet localhost 110
4. user <username>
5. pass <plain text password>

Actual Results:  
Server responds with;

-ERR Bad login

Expected Results:  
Server should have replied with;

+OK opened mailbox for <username>

The solution is to copy vm-pop3d.pamd from the source archive into
/etc/pam.d/vm-pop3d

[Comment 1 Shaun Cloherty 2004-02-09 23:34:58 UTC]

Created attachment 25316 [details]
vm-pop3d.pamd for inclusion in vm-pop3d/files

Seems the suplied vm-pop3d.pamd uses the deprecated /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so.
Here's an updated version using /lib/security/pam_unix.so. I suggest adding it
to the portage tree.

[Comment 2 Shaun Cloherty 2004-02-09 23:39:57 UTC]

Created attachment 25317 [details]
Updated ebuild to take care of installing vm-pop3d.pamd

Here's an updated ebuild (I added the -r1 though it may not warrant that) to
handle installation of the attached vm-pop3d.pamd in /etc/pam.d.

[Comment 3 Shaun Cloherty 2004-08-06 01:31:10 UTC]

Any body interrested in this bug? I noticed on a new install that the ebuild has been modified, but this bug persists... <nudge>.

[Comment 4 Fernando J. Pereda (RETIRED) 2005-02-16 11:25:42 UTC]

Fixed in CVS.

Thanks
Ferdy