On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Ed McCorduck wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Fratoni > > Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 10:03 AM > > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: pop won't authenticate my password > > > Did you configure a firewall when you did the install on this > > machine? Try "su -" and then "lokkit" which will allow you to > > see and modify any > > firewall settings. If you set your secutiry setting to the default of > > "high" initially, then the firewall won't allow pop3 connections. You > > need to allow connections to port 110 for pop3. > > > > - -- > > - -Michael > > > Hi Michael, > > I thought I had chosen *not* to install a firewall when I first > installed RH9 on this machine since I knew it was going to part of a > network running under a Linksys router, which has a built-in firewall > whose settings you can change (in fact, I'd changed the port settings of > the network to allow my just my Linux box's POP/IMAP (i.e. 110), SMTP, > HTTP and FTP ports to be accessible outside of the router's firewall. > However, when I ran Lokkit as you suggested, I was surprised to see that > initial setting was "High". I changed it to "No firewall" (in light of > the other network precautions I'd taken as described above), and hit OK. > Then I ran Mozilla Mail and tried to retrieve mail through pop again, > but the same result as before: after getting "Enter your password for > ed@pop" and entering my normal password, I got only "The PASS command > did not succeed. Mail server pop responded: Authentication failed." I just thought it was worth pointing out that Lokkit *always* starts out "High", no matter what your old settings were. That (mis-)feature causes newbies no end of confusion. If you want to know what your current firewall settings are, use "service iptables status". You'll get a list of iptables rules, but they're not that hard to decipher. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
