INN binaries for solaris 7

[Hongcheang.Quek at ap.sony.com]

Hi Tracy

Is my way of generating the password correct? First use crypt to make the
password, then add in the "user_name:" into the file.  I have checked my
news.notice logfile and it kept complainting bad authenication.  I noticed that
there is always a ^W or ^H character in front of my password, it would look
something like :

^H434\343\334\3436\575\

Is this normal?  If I remove the ^H, I found that I can't even get crypt to get
back the same password.

So what I did with this file was that I used vi to change it to :

user_name:^H434\343\334\3436\575\

Have already changed the owner of ckpasswd to root and chmod to 4575.

Thanks.
Quek





Tracy Williams <twilliams at entigo.com> on 09/13/2001 09:47:02 PM

To:   Hong Cheang Quek/EDMS/SES/AP/SONY at SONYAP
cc:
Subject:  RE: INN binaries for solaris 7



I had a similar problem. I had to setuid the ckpasswd program. I ran:
chmod 4575 ckpasswd
chown root ckpasswd

Give it a try.
Tracy Williams

-----Original Message-----
From: Hongcheang.Quek at ap.sony.com [mailto:Hongcheang.Quek at ap.sony.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 9:59 PM
To: inn-workers at isc.org
Subject: Re: INN binaries for solaris 7





Hi everyone

Thanks for all the reply.  I have successfully compiled and started the INN
daemons.  The compilation issue turned out to be a problem of the OS,
anyway, I
have already solved it.  As for the missing makefile.global file, it was
because
I have forgotton to run ./configure first.  Sorry.

Now, I have a question on setting passwords.  I have edited my readers.conf
to
be :

auth "passwords" {
     auth: "ckpasswd -f   /usr/local/news/db/passwd"
}

access "passwords" {
     user: "hello"
     newsgroup : "*"
     access : "Read Post"
}

Then I created a text file "pass" with the words "testing" in it and applied
the
crypt comand to it.
news%crypt key<pass> passwd
The passwd file was created.  Then I de-encoded it to make sure that it is
working.
news%crypt key<passwd > out
File "out" now contains my original password "testing", showing that the
whole
thing seems to be working.
Next, I edited the passwd file so that it looks like this :
hello:\454\5435\dfgdsg\dfg

So, now I re-started INN server and try to log into my INN server (on
solaris 7)
from my win98 PC using Microsoft Outlook Express 2000 and use "hello" as the
user_name and "testing" as the password.  But I just could not authenicate
successfully!  Not sure why, please advice.

Also, is "ckpasswd" a separated binary file that is distributed together
with
the source files or is it something built into nnrpd?

Thanks .
Quek

---------------------- Forwarded by Hong Cheang Quek/EDMS/SES/AP/SONY on
09/13/2001 09:29 AM ---------------------------


"Jeffrey M. Vinocur" <jeff at litech.org> on 09/12/2001 10:43:08 AM

To:   Hong Cheang Quek/EDMS/SES/AP/SONY at SONYAP
cc:   "inn-workers at isc.org" <inn-workers at isc.org>
Subject:  Re: INN binaries for solaris 7




On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Hongcheang.Quek at ap.sony.com wrote:

> I have been having problems with the compilation of INN 2.32 on my solaris
7
> workstation.  Is there anywhere that I can get the binaries for Solaris 7?

I suppose someone might send them to you...


If you tell us what problems you are having, we will help you with them.


--
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org




-------------------------------------------------------------------
This email is confidential and intended only for the use of
the individual or entity named above and may contain
information that is privileged. If you are not the intended
recipient, you are notified that any dissemination,
distribution or copying of this email is strictly prohibited.
If you have received this email in error, please notify us
immediately by return email or telephone and destroy the
original message. Thank you.
-------------------------------------------------------------------