PW-resetting and Email - Bug or Function?

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johannes

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Hi,
what happened:
1) I loosed the pw and resetted it by shell ("passwd admin")
2) I was able to login into DA and to recieve Emails with my serveradmin-mailaccounts, but I was not able to send Emails (again only with the admin-mailaccounts, and with local OutlookEx the same like with webmailer in DA)
3) I corrected it by logging-in into DA and "changing" the password again to the same.

So the initial pw resetting by shell changed it successfully for the DA-Login and recieving mails, but not for sending mails - may a bug?
 
Hello,

It's always to reset a password through DA to ensure passwords in all places are reset.

The "passwd admin" only changes the system password in /etc/shadow

There are other locations too:

/home/admin/.shadow - send email via smtp-auth
/etc/proftpd.passwd - ftp
and mysql databases for DBs created by admin.

John
 
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