SUMMARY #2 pop for solaris and c2

From: John Hammersmith (johnh@jrc.flinders.edu.au)
Date: Mon Jun 06 1994 - 06:38:59 CDT


Original question:
>Sun Managers,
>
>Does any one know how to get POP 3 (Post Office Protocol) working on a Sun
>running Solaris 2.3 with C2 security?
>
>The problem is that the code (popper1.83) uses getpwnam to compare the user
>supplied password with the password file. Trouble is that this does not get
>the password from the shadow file hence there is no match...
>

Original answer (from myself):
The answer: Modify the source to use the getspnam (get shadow password by
name) instead of getpwnam and recompile.

Extra answers:
I modified the source to pop for myself but others have indicated that they
would like this too. Rather than provide my modified sources I point to an
ftp site where the source exists with these mods. I have also compiled and
tested this code and it seems to be fine.

So: from Mike Frank
>John:
>FTP to lilac.berkeley.edu:/pub/pop/solaris2 and you'll find a version
>of popper already setup for Solaris 2.
>
>Good Luck
>Mike

Thanks also to these Sun Managers who replied:
Mitch Wright <mitch@corp.cirrus.com>
emsca!soporte!jap@venezuela.sun.com (Juan Alexander Pulido (emsca))
Phil Antoine <antoine@RadOnc.Duke.EDU>
Paul Humphries paul@hydres.uucp
ulla@dmi.min.dk (Ulla Fischer)
garrett@sciences.SDSU.Edu (Garrett D'Amore)

John Hammersmith



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