[Dovecot] Logging "issue" with PAM authentication

[Timo Sirainen]

On 7.7.2004, at 20:39, Steve Johnson wrote:

> We currently have a postfix/dovecot setup using nss_ldap with PAM for
> authentication. Everything is working fine, but there are excessive
> "error" messages in /var/log/messages that I'd like to prevent from
> happening.
>
> Since auth_userdb defaults to passwd and that our users are not in the
> passwd file, we get the following message everytime a user logs in:

passwd userdb actually uses NSS (or getpwnam() which uses it) and not 
/etc/passwd directly.

> Jul  7 13:34:37 hostname dovecot(pam_unix)[32206]: check pass; user
> unknown
> Jul  7 13:34:37 hostname dovecot(pam_unix)[32206]: authentication
> failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=

That's written by pam_unix PAM module, not Dovecot. Do you have both 
pam_unix and pam_ldap in /etc/pam.d/dovecot? Remove the pam_unix.so 
lines from there.
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