[Dovecot] "check pass; user unknown" -- SOLVED

[Zsombor]

Hi all,

Sorry for the mail below, we have found the solution.

We had to comment out the "passdb pam {" line in dovecot.conf althoug this section was empty. This
solved all the problems.

Bye,
zs-


> Hi,
>
>
> I'm using dovecot v1.0.rc15 (from debian etch) and I have some performance problems.
>
> Every time I log in I see the following in the mail log:
>
> ----
> Jul  8 21:05:31 myserver dovecot-auth: (pam_unix) check pass; user unknown
> Jul  8 21:05:31 myserver dovecot-auth: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname=uid=0 euid=0
> tty=dovecot ruser= rhost=127.0.0.1
> Jul  8 21:05:33 myserver dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<mogorva at mydomain.hu>,method=PLAIN,
> rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
> Jul  8 21:05:33 myserver dovecot: IMAP(mogorva at mydomain.hu): Disconnected: Logged out
> ----
>
> It doesn't matter if I use Squirrelmail or Thunderbird (as POP3 client), the first try is always
> empty username and password so it slows down terribly every action.
>
> What's more I'm using postgres authentication and there are no local system users.
> This problem didn't come out with previous version of dovecot.
>
> Thank you in advance,
> zs-
>
>
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