Bug 41285

Summary:	PAM and QPopper needs pam_pwdb.so
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Stephen Allen <gentoo>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages <net-mail+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stephen Allen 2004-02-11 12:26:19 UTC

QPopper requires the library "/lib/security/pam_pwdb.so" if built with PAM authentication.  The latest emerge of PAM seems to remove that library and results in QPopper failing.

A temporary solution is to emerge QPopper with USE="-pam" and that will result in a QPopper without PAM support.  It would be best for the future however to either have pam_pwdb.so added back to PAM or patch QPopper to use another PAM library like pam_unix.so.

Comment 1 Brad Laue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-15 10:36:14 UTC

Add 'pwdb' to your USE flags, this worked for me.

Comment 2 Tuan Van (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-23 09:12:32 UTC

# grep pwdb /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc
sys-libs/pam:pwdb - If you want pam_pwdb.so installed to use pwdb as passwd db

resolve as invalid.