[tpop3d-discuss]authentication failures on Mac OS X 10.3

[Roger Baig Viñas]

> There should be either a pam.conf file, or a pam.d
> directory containing a bunch of named files, which define
> how to handle authentication for each service. I don't
> know where Mac OS X keeps those (typically this would be
> /etc/pam.conf or /etc/pam.d; if not, try locate) but once
> you've found them you'll need to configure pam to know
> about tpop3d. Without seeing what the settings look like
> for other services on the system I can't tell you how to
> do that, but it should be easy to adapt the settings for
> (say) sshd by copying the pam.conf line or pam.d/ssh file.

I've been trying to write the /etc/pam.d/pop file but without good
results. I hope the following info can help:

$ uname -a
Darwin rilat.local 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30
20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power
Macintosh powerpc

$ ls /etc/pam.d
chkpasswd ftpd      login     other     passwd     sshd      su        sudo

>From my experience I can assert that tpop3d uses the directory above

$ cat /etc/pam.d/ftpd
# login: auth account password session
auth       sufficient     pam_securityserver.so
auth       required       pam_deny.so
account    required       pam_permit.so
password   required       pam_deny.so
session    required       pam_permit.so

$ cat /etc/pam.d/login
# login: auth account password session
auth       required       pam_nologin.so
auth       sufficient     pam_securityserver.so
auth       sufficient     pam_unix.so
auth       required       pam_deny.so
account    required       pam_permit.so
password   required       pam_deny.so
session    required       pam_uwtmp.so

$ cat /etc/pam.d/other
# other: auth account password session
auth       required       pam_deny.so
account    required       pam_deny.so
password   required       pam_deny.so
session    required       pam_deny.so

$ cat /etc/pam.d/sshd
# login: auth account password session
auth       required       pam_nologin.so
auth       sufficient     pam_securityserver.so
auth       sufficient     pam_unix.so
auth       required       pam_deny.so
account    required       pam_permit.so
password   required       pam_deny.so
session    required       pam_permit.so


regards

--
roger