Hi, I wanted to post an ebuild request for poppassd: POP Password Changer was adapted from poppassd, which talks to /bin/passwd over a pseudo-tty. This version uses PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) directly, so all of the pseudo-tty code has been removed. It was originally written to solve the problem of changing passwords in one repository, while keeping the same account locked in another. I'm usgin Gentoo more and more in server environnement, and this ebuild would be great... Thanks in advance.
net-mail/poppassd_pam has been added to portage. Please test and let me know if it works properly for you!
I am using poppassd_pam in conjunction with shadow and have found that poppassd doesn't work. If I connect to it via telnet, provide a valid user name, a bogus password and a new password, poppassd reports that my password was changed. But it was not. I would expect some kind of error associated with the bad password. If I give it my real password, it behaves exactly the same: claims to have changed my password, but does not. I mentioned the fact that shadow was installed because I'm wondering if this could account for the problem. Just a guess. Thanks -- Steve
I have also been testing poppassd on my server, using telnet. The server is not changing any passwords, although it is reporting that it has. You can enter bogus user credentials and it still carries on - there is certainly something very wrong with the ebuild/server program as it is currently. I also have shadow installed.
