Can't find ckpasswd for inn2

Question

I'm attempting to set up an intranet news server, inn2, and I'm stuck at setting up user authentication.

My readers.conf file looks like this:

auth all {
    auth: "ckpasswd -d <pathdb in inn.conf>/newsusers"
    auth: "ckpasswd -s"
}

access full {
    users: *
    newsgroups: *
}

I created a password database using a Perl script named dbmpasswd that I grabbed from somewhere. This script created two files, newsusers.pag and newsusers.dir.

In the auth all block above, I'm referencing a program called ckpasswd but I can't find this program on my system (CentOS 6.2) anywhere. yum whatprovides returns nothing and it's not in my path. Google doesn't turn up much either.

Where can I find ckpasswd and more important, I suppose--is this the right way to set up authentication for inn2?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 29 '13 at 20:08

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On my Ubuntu and Centos 5 systems, ckpasswd is part of inn2 and found as /usr/lib/news/bin/auth/passwd/ckpasswd. I'd be surprised if it's not there on Centos 6.

answered Mar 29 '13 at 20:08

Dennis Kaarsemaker

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It was actually located at /usr/libexec/news/auth/passwd/ckpasswd but your answer pointed me in the right direction. – skyler Apr 01 '13 at 14:44

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 30 '13 at 10:41

Older version of yum would erroneously match against files, now you must explicitly specify the behavior with something like */ckpasswd:

$ yum provides */ckpasswd
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror 
Reducing CentOS-5 Testing to included packages only
Finished
inn-2.4.3-9.el5.i386 : The InterNetNews (INN) system, an Usenet news server.
Repo        : base
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib/news/bin/auth/passwd/ckpasswd

So now that you know where it is ensure that its in your $PATH or specify the full path in your config.

Can't find ckpasswd for inn2

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