[freeside] Email account exports via ssh for vpopmail (password problem)

Mike O'Connor freeside at pineview.net
Wed Mar 10 17:54:45 PST 2004


Hi Ivan

Thank you for you help, I did have the email service set to fixed password

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ivan" <ivan at 420.am>
To: <ivan-freeside at sisd.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [freeside] Email account exports via ssh for vpopmail (password
problem)


On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:31:18AM +1030, Mike O'Connor wrote:
> Hi Rick
>
> Yes those are the commands I'm using, it would seem as if the passwords
are
> being encrypted as I enter them.

Nope, this isn't currently done.

> Because I found an option to cause freeside to display the password in the
> web page and even this is incorrect

Looks like you're inserting the incorrect passwords in the database in
the first place.  Perhaps you've set a blank default or fixed password
in the service definition, which would blank the password you enter in
the web interface and generate a random one.

-- 
_ivan

>
> Mike
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rick Harby" <rharby at caarnet.com>
> To: <ivan-freeside at sisd.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 12:49 AM
> Subject: RE: [freeside] Email account exports via ssh for vpopmail
(password
> problem)
>
>
> What exact command are you using for the export? Here is what we use and
it
> works perfectly:
>
> Insert Command:/home/vpopmail/bin/vadduser $username\@$domain
> $quoted_password
>
> Delete Command: /home/vpopmail/bin/vdeluser $username\@$domain
>
> Modify Command: /home/vpopmail/bin/vpasswd $new_username\@$new_domain
> $new_quoted_password
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike O'Connor [mailto:freeside at pineview.net]
> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 1:49 AM
> To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com
> Subject: [freeside] Email account exports via ssh for vpopmail (password
> problem)
>
> Hi all
>
> I have freeside 1.4.1 configure to export vpopmail commands via ssh.
>
> It creates the account and also seems to do the password updates, but the
> password transferred is garbage.
>
> I wrote a small bash script to act as an wrapper to vpasswd and as you can
> see the password transferred is not test1234.
>
> vmail1:/usr/local/bin# cat /tmp/log
> mattw@<withheld>-j622!D4U
>
> vmail1:/usr/local/bin# cat setpassword.sh
> #!/bin/sh
> echo $1-$2 >> /tmp/log
> /usr/sbin/vpasswd $1 $2
>
>
> I found an option to turn off hidden password within freeside and found
that
> the password stored there was also incorrect.
>
> Does any one have any idea why this is ?
>
> Thanks
>  Mike O'C
>
>
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-- 
_ivan




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