This problem has been resolved. Xinetd is not installed by default in FC5. Installing xinetd fixed this problem. Regards, Erik Message: 5 Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 08:43:14 -0800 (PST) From: Erik Kron <erik_kron@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Cannot change password: ERROR:Connection refused (111) To: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <20070103164314.67998.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Environment: FC 5 poppassd-1.8.5.tar.gz squirrelmail-1.4.9a change_pass-2.7-1.4 I cannot change password: ERROR:Connection refused (111) I installed squirrelmail and the above packages.I am trying to setup my environment so that users are can change their passwords via squirrelmail web interface. What I have done: 1. When I try to change the password via squirrelmail (change password option) I get the following error messages: ERROR:Connection refused (111) 2. When I do ?telnet localhost 106? I get Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused 3. I installed poppasd in /usr/sbin/poppassd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18719 Jan 3 00:00 /usr/sbin/poppassd 4. I have the following entries in /etc/pam.d/poppassd (-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 255 Jan 3 10:57 /etc/pam.d/poppassd) #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_unix.so shadow nullok account required /lib/security/pam_unix.so password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 password required /lib/security/pam_unix.so use_authtok nullok 5. I have a /etc/xinetd.d/poppassd file (-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 366 Jan 3 10:58 /etc/xinetd.d/poppassd) service poppassd { disable = no socket_type = stream port = 106 wait = no user = root server = /usr/sbin/poppassd #server_args = poppassd only_from = localhost log_on_success += USERID log_on_failure += USERID } 6. When I run ?netstat -an | grep 106? - I GET NOTHING What am I doing wrong? Any help as usual is appreciated. Message: 6 Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:13:43 -0500 From: Chris Hilts <tassium@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Cannot change password: ERROR:Connection refused (111) To: Erik Kron <erik_kron@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <459BE447.60907@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Erik Kron wrote: > 5. I have a /etc/xinetd.d/poppassd > file Did you restart xinetd? Chris Hilts tassium@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFm+RH98ixrK2vMtARAvv0AKCJoBYtWJDGm3V+Bnegv17HNfWeEACfcWUp uyWrucKDNkeeFMerQncyzfY= =Cihc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users