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change_pass plugin on RPM-based distros

Some steps David and I have followed in previous installs:

I downloaded change_pass from:

http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_download.php?id=21

I unzipped it into the squirrelmail plugins directory and then ran conf.pl to perform the configuration settings and enable the plugin."

Here is the output showing that it is now installed:

Installed Plugins

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    2. squirrelspell
    3. newmail
    4. change_pass

Then I used the "cimplus_lal" user you informed below and I confirmed that a "Change password" link now appears in the "Options" page.

But when trying to change the password, I got the following error at Squirrelmail:

ERROR:Connection refused (111)

Reading the change_pass plugin documentation, I found out that I had to install a poppassd service. I download a poppasswd compliant service that supports PAM referenced here: http://freshmeat.net/projects/poppassd-ceti/

I used this RPM file: http://freshmeat.net/redir/poppassd-ceti/22599/url_rpm/poppassd-ceti-1.8.5-co4.i386.rpm

I enabled this service at xinetd, by changing the "disabled" parameter from "yes" to "no" in /etc/xinetd.d/poppassd.

Then I started and enabled xinetd on boot up:

1. /etc/init.d/xinetd start
2. chkconfig xinetd on