Inadequate error reporting from nnrpd Perl loader

[River Tarnell]

Hi,

When nnrpd (2.5.2) fails to load the perl_auth script (in this case, due 
to a permissions error), and a client tries to authenticate via 
AUTHINFO USER/PASS, it logs the following:

Feb  3 17:38:56 isis nnrpd[2481]: localhost (::1) connect - port 119
Feb  3 17:38:56 isis nnrpd[2481]: Reading access from /usr/pkg/etc/inn/readers.conf
Feb  3 17:38:56 isis nnrpd[2481]: Auth strategy 'rt-internal' does not match client.  Removing.
Feb  3 17:38:56 isis nnrpd[2481]: localhost res rt-internal
Feb  3 17:38:56 isis nnrpd[2481]: localhost no_match_user rt-internal *,!rt-*
Feb  3 17:38:56 isis nnrpd[2481]: localhost match_user rt-internal rt-internal,rt-localhost
Feb  3 17:39:00 isis nnrpd[2481]: SERVER perl filtering enabled
Feb  3 17:39:00 isis nnrpd[2481]: SERVER perl filtering disabled
Feb  3 17:39:00 isis nnrpd[2481]: Perl function authenticate not defined
Feb  3 17:39:00 isis nnrpd[2481]: localhost times user 0.097 system 0.019 idle 0.000 elapsed 4.768

At no point does it indicate there was any error loading the script, or 
what the error might be.

Regards,
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