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rvh@diva.dgk.ruu.nl (Rudi van Houten) writes:
: We compiled popper on a RS/6000, and it runs OK. But we didn't
: succeed in making a connection. It was always rejected on wrong
: password. We assume that popper doesn't know of password shadowing
: (but we didn't scan the code). Anyone has a clue on this aspect?

I'm running popper 1.831beta here without problems at all, currently
on RS6000 AIX 3.2.2, but also 3.1.5.

(1) build it with CC=bsdcc (see /usr/lpp/bos/bsdport)
(2) defines are -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DBIT_ZERO_ON_LEFT
(3) in /etc/inetd.conf, popper must be run under user 'root' in order
    to get the password out of the shadow password file.  Otherwise
    an undecodable '*' is returned.  See the AIX man-page for getpwnam(3).
    Most daemons (other than finger, which is a security hole) run as
    root from inetd.conf.  A typical entry would be:

pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/etc/popper popper

You probably have to add 'pop3 110/tcp' to /etc/services too, run inetimp,
and if you're running Yellow Plague (NIS) then remake that, too.
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