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COURIERPASSD(8) Authentication COURIERPASSD(8) NAME courierpassd - change passwords from across the network using the Courier authentication library SYNOPSIS courierpassd [-hV] [-s SERVICE] [--stderr] courierpassd -s, --service SERVICE courierpassd --stderr courierpassd -h, --help courierpassd -V, --version DESCRIPTION courierpassd allows users to change their passwords from remote locations using the Courier authentication library. Usernames can be up to 64 charac- ters long while passwords can be up to 128 characters long. courierpassd uses the poppassd protocol for obtaining authentication tokens from the network. courierpassd is intended to be run from a super-server such as tcpserver or xinetd. The service specified by the -s switch will depend on the particular au- thentication modules installed. Often 'login' will be appropriate but other possibilities include 'imap' and 'pop3'. This value defaults to 'login'. See the Courier documentation for a further explanation of this switch. The minimum uid that courierpassd will attempt to change a password for can be set at compile time using the configure option --with-minuid. courier- passd will refuse to change the password of a user whose uid is below this value. The default value is 100. This value should never be set to 0 as this would allow root's password to be changed from a remote location. A second configure option, --with-badpassdelay, can be used to set the de- lay in seconds that courierpassd sleeps after an unsuccessful password change attempt. This feature is designed to make brute force attacks against passwords harder to perform. The default value is 3. LOGGING Logging is done to syslog by default or to stderr if the --stderr switch is used. courierpassd logs all password change attempts whether they are suc- cessful or not. courierpassd does certain checks on command line arguments so it is impor- tant to put --stderr first in the argument list if it is to be used in or- der for these checks to be logged properly. EXAMPLE CLIENT-SERVER CONVERSATION All messages passed between server and client are text based allowing a client session to be easily mimicked with telnet. Using telnet, changing a user's password would look like this: Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. 200 courierpassd 1.1.2 hello, who are you?\r\n user <username>\r\n 200 Your password please.\r\n pass <current password> 200 Your new password please.\r\n newpass <new password>\r\n 200 Password changed, thank-you.\r\n quit\r\n 200 Bye.\r\n Connection closed by foreign host. BUGS If you've found a bug in courierpassd, please report it to free- ware@arda.homeunix.net SEE ALSO http://www.courier-mta.org/authlib/ http://echelon.pl/pubs/poppassd.html AUTHOR courierpassd was written by Andrew St. Jean Courier authentication library was written by Sam Varshavchik poppassd was written by Pawel Krawczyk based on an ealier version written by John Norstad, Roy Smith and Daniel L. Leavitt GNU/Linux 20 Jan 2005 COURIERPASSD(8)
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