[Dovecot] pop3 authentication failure - password mismatch

[James Sun]

On 7/22/05, James Sun <jamjazzy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/22/05, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 11:44 -0700, James Sun wrote:
> > > Jul 22 18:28:18 hsiufen dovecot: auth(default):
> > > passwd(jam,24.6.106.170): password mismatch
> > ..
> > > auth default {
> > >   mechanisms = plain
> > >   passdb = passwd
> > >   userdb = passwd
> > >   user = root
> > > }
> >
> > Are you sure you're using passwd passdb? Nowadays it only works with
> > BSDs. Maybe you were using pam before?
> >
> >
> 
> If I change passdb to "pam", then dovecot will exist immediate with
> errors.  See below:
> 
> Jul 22 22:16:34 hsiufen dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up
> Jul 22 22:16:36 hsiufen dovecot: child 7893 (auth) returned error 89
> Jul 22 22:16:36 hsiufen dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down
> Jul 22 22:16:36 hsiufen dovecot: auth(default): Unknown passdb type 'pam'
> 
> Maybe there is something else I should fix here instead of changing passdb?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jun
> 

Just found that my build host does not have pam-devel library
installed.  I suppose that might be the root of this particular
problem.  I will will install pam-devel and give it a try again.

Jun