Hello,<br><br>I recently installed dovecot1.0rc25 on my RHEL4 system running postfix and wish to use both virtual and system users. Virtuals work fine, but I get authentication failures with system users. I've tried pam, passwd and shadow.
<br><br><br>Attempting to telnet as system user<br>telnet localhost 143<br>Trying 127.0.0.1...<br>Connected to localhost.localdomain (<a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a>).<br>Escape character is '^]'.<br>* OK Dovecot ready.
<br>a login user passwd<br>a NO Authentication failed.<br><br>and corresponding log<br>Mar 3 14:35:24 obvx dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=<a href="http://127.0.0.1">
127.0.0.1</a> rip=<a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a> resp=AG1o*******************<br>Mar 3 14:35:27 obvx dovecot: auth(default): pam(myuser,<a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a>): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure
<br>Mar 3 14:35:27 obvx dovecot: auth(default): passwd(myuser,<a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a>): password mismatch<br>Mar 3 14:35:27 obvx dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=myuser<br><br>Below is the output of dovecot -n
<br>============<br># /etc/dovecot.conf<br>protocols: imap pop3<br>ssl_disable: yes<br>disable_plaintext_auth: no<br>login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login<br>login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
<br>login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login<br>login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login<br>first_valid_uid: 101<br>last_valid_uid: 101<br>mail_extra_groups: mail<br>mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
<br>mail_debug: yes<br>maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes<br>mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap<br>mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap<br>mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
<br>mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota<br>mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota<br>mail_plugins(pop3): quota<br>mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap<br>mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
<br>mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3<br>imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail<br>imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail<br>imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle
<br>pop3_client_workarounds(default):<br>pop3_client_workarounds(imap):<br>pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh<br>auth default:<br> user: nobody<br> verbose: yes<br> debug: yes<br> debug_passwords: yes
<br> passdb:<br> driver: sql<br> args: /etc/dovecot/sql.conf<br> passdb:<br> driver: pam<br> args: *<br> passdb:<br> driver: passwd<br> userdb:<br> driver: sql<br> args: /etc/dovecot/sql.conf<br> userdb:
<br> driver: passwd<br> userdb:<br> driver: prefetch<br> socket:<br> type: listen<br> client:<br> path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth<br> mode: 432<br> user: postfix<br> group: mail<br>
master:<br> path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master<br> mode: 432<br> user: vmail<br> group: mail<br>plugin:<br> quota: maildir:storage=10240:messages=1000<br> trash: /etc/dovecot/trash.conf<br>=============
<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Malaney<br><br>