[Dovecot] A Couple Of Issues (APOP Causes Auth SIGSEGV, Umask Setting Ineffective)

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 13:10 +0100, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
> 1.  When I attempt APOP login of any variety on the POP3 server auth dies 
> with signal 11.  passwd-file is of course listed as a password database, 
> alongside shadow.  I get back "-ERR Internal authentication failure - 
> please try again later." or something like this and all subsequent 
> authentication in that session won't work (of course, auth is dead).  The 
> password entry is in /etc/dovecot.secrets (perms=0700,uid=0,gid=0) and 
> looks like:
> username:{PLAIN}cleartextpassword

Actually I have in my TODO that APOP is probably broken. So this
confirms it, I should look into it. What very quick to install POP3
Linux clients support APOP?

> 2.  Umask setting gone strange.  I set it, per example comment, to "7077" 
> rather than default of 0077 (just to be precise...).  

I think this is because 7077 is treated as decimal. Use 07077 so it gets
back to octal.

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