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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers passwd Post 302571462 by satish51392111 on Monday 7th of November 2011 11:57:14 AM
Old 11-07-2011
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cvm-checkpassword(8)					      System Manager's Manual					      cvm-checkpassword(8)

NAME
cvm-checkpassword - checkpassword interface for CVM modules SYNOPSIS
cvm-checkpassword CVM Command [ arguments ... ] DESCRIPTION
http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd/interface.html http://untroubled.org/cvm/cvm.html See the above links for details on both the CVM and checkpassword interfaces. To use this interface with qmail-pop3d(8), use the following command line: /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup cvm-checkpassword cvm-unix /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d ./Maildir/ Note: The default mode of operations for this module is to attempt to split a domain name from the account name. If this is not desirable, set $CVM_ACCOUNT_SPLIT_CHARS to an empty string. SEE ALSO
cvm-pwfile(8), cvm-qmail(8), cvm-unix(8), cvm-sql(8), cvm-vmailmgr(8), cvm-benchclient(8), cvm-testclient(8) http://untroubled.org/cvm/cvm.html cvm-checkpassword(8)
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