[H-GEN] Strangeness with POP3 - Supplementry

[Ewan Edwards]

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Tried to telnet to the popd port while watching the logs.  (Transcript of 
telnet session below, as well as relevant lines from /var/log/secure.)  It 
seems the issue is something to do with attempting to authenticate against 
the Windows domain controller.  This is not something I expected at all !  

Samba on the same box is configured to use the Windows DC for authentication 
via winbind, so it seems all authentication uses the same mechanism.  I'm not 
yet sure if this is a good thing or not a good thing.  :-(  

I need to look into this, and learn about the use (and abuse) of pluggable 
authentication modules and winbind.


[ewane at zircon ewane]$ telnet mail 110
Trying 172.30.44.22...
Connected to mail (172.30.44.22).
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK POP3 mail v2001.78rh server ready
user test
+OK User name accepted, password please
pass test
-ERR Bad login

quit
+OK Sayonara
Connection closed by foreign host.
[ewane at zircon ewane]$


/var/log/secure
Feb 18 16:51:05 mail xinetd[15629]: START: pop3 pid=19865 from=172.30.44.59
Feb 18 16:51:55 mail ipop3d[19865]: pam_smb: Incorrect NT password for 
username : test
Feb 18 16:53:35 mail xinetd[15629]: EXIT: pop3 pid=19865 duration=150(sec)



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