Nix Bits

Installed Squirrelmail today for the company. I first used ApacheToolBox to build and install Apache with php4, SSL support, and even IMAP. I’ve used that a few times and this is the first time I had a build go with so little trouble. The only thing I had to do was install GNU sed to fix a long path issue during the PHP4 build. After that everything was automatic.

As a bonus, I found that Squirrelmail had a plugin to change user passwords through PAM. Very cool! Once we get LDAP rolling we can still use this to change passwords and we’ll have a company-wide contact list in the webmail interface. Frankly, I’m surprised how smooth this went.

Actually the change password plugin had one wrinkle for Solaris. In the source for poppassd.c I had to change an include from “security/pam_misc.h” to “security/pam_module.h”. Once I did that it built fine and ran after a little naggling with tcpd.