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

Chris Lightfoot chris at ex-parrot.com
Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:38:29 +0000


On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 04:15:22PM +0100, Roger Baig Viņas wrote:
> > 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:

Call the file tpop3d, or set
    auth-pam-facility: pop
in the config file.

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