ipop3d

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 10:54 -0500, Dan Doucette wrote:
>  
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> > karlp at ourldsfamily.com
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 5:30 PM
> > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > Subject: Re: ipop3d
> > 
> > On Wed, March 8, 2006 2:32 pm, Dan Doucette said:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Been a while, enjoy this list very much!
> > >
> > > Using RH9
> > >
> > > I'm having an issue with authentication via ipop3d, seems to take 
> > > about 30-60 seconds for the user to authenticate and get 
> > mail. I found 
> > > a few messages in the RH archive about the passwd file and users at 
> > > the bottom taking longer to authenticate versus users at 
> > the beginning 
> > > of the file taking less, this is true in my situation. The 
> > passwd file 
> > > is 228 lines which I'm assuming is not as large as some 
> > others. With 
> > > myself being at the top apparently I have not noticed. As 
> > an example a 
> > > user who was just added and shows up at the bottom of this file is 
> > > taking well over 30 seconds to authenticate. With that said 
> > does anyone have any ideas or solutions?
> > 
> > No real ideas, other than how about moving your ID to the 
> > bottom of the list and then running a timed test... It would 
> > at least verify what you are suspecting.
> > 
> > Karl
> 
> Thanks for your reply Karl. After a bit more research I discovered the
> problem is with ident sending back to port 113, the client machine in
> question had the default windows firewall turn on. I added an exception for
> port 113 and holey smokes that was it, lighting quick now. Hope this might
> help somebody else out. I noticed some others removed:
> 
> log_on_success          += USERID
> log_on_failure          += USERID
> 
> I have not tried that yet. Anyone know if this will stop ident from
> communicating back with the client?

Yes, the USERID stuff in the various xinetd.d files is what forces the
IDENT stuff to run.  Either delete the USERID bit (assuming there's
other stuff you want logged) or delete the lines alltogether to prevent
IDENT from being used.

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