Re: [9fans] plan9 as an imaps server

["ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>]

On 5/29/07, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

> I guess you know this but just in case - imap uses the inferno/pop password for
> your account on the plan9 box, rather than the p9sk1 one. This is visible on
> your machine (so authserv can see it) from the console of your machine, look in
> /mnt/keys/$user/secret (I think - not at the console at present). you could
> look in here to ensure you don't have a different inferno/pop(/imap) passowrd
> from the one you hoped.
>

actually, here is what is interesting. Once I put the key in
/mnt/factotum/ctl via cat, i.e. once I did this:
auth/secstore -G factotum > /mnt/factotum/ctl
then the mail passwords for all accounts -- port imap or imaps --
stopped working. They were working moments before this, then stopped.

Once I got rid of the factotum, they started working again. Now that's
confusing (to me).

I think the bigger issue is that the wiki is just almost, but not
quite, completely wrong on how to do this.

thanks

ron
p.s. this is in auth/password.c:
	if(pw->expire <= now){
		werrstr("account expired");
		freePW(pw);
		return nil;
	}

I read yesterday that pw->expire == 0 means "forever". That's going to
always fail here, right?
how about if ((pw_expire) && (pw->expire <= now)){