POP3 Help (RedHat 9)

warath · 11-09-2003, 09:20 PM

I have setup users to have access only to email on the server (shell set to /bin/false, or /sbin/nologin), and everything works greate however!
After a day or so, thier passwords stop working through the POP3 server, and I have to reset them before they can get their mail again (using outlook, or others)

Also installed/running:
Samba (with password sync off)
Sendmail
MySQL
Apache
etc.

Any ideas as to why this is happening?

Thanks

warath · 11-09-2003, 09:22 PM

Sorry, didn't see that my original post got moved, and can't seem to delete this one... thought my first one didn't get posted properly. Sorry.

chort · 11-10-2003, 12:29 AM

If your question hasn't been answered already... it sounds like the passwords have an extremely short time-out, or maybe you got the syntax wrong when you were setting the expiration. Is this Mandrake by any chance? I know I had one heck of a time trying to figure out the proper values for chpass so I finally just set all the accounts to expire in the year 9999. I'd print out my setup for you if I still ran Mandrake. Sorry

warath · 11-10-2003, 12:37 PM

It is Redhat 9... I just tried using redhat-config-users to go through each user and ensure that password expiration is disabled for everyone. Lets see what that does ;-)