[Dovecot] Errors in /var/log/maillog and /var/log/dovecot.log

[Li Cai]

fixed now as my failure to set first_valid_uid to lower value .
Some users have uids of lower than 500

Li

On 1/14/06, Li Cai <lltsai at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> There was not any auth failure or err messages in secure log related to
> imaps being logged.
> But the dovecot.log does have more detailed info:
>
> "
> Jan 14 09:18:42 Info: imap-login: Internal login failure: user=<user1>,
> method=PLAIN, rip=X.X.X.X, lip=X.X.X.X, TLS
> Jan 14 09:19:03 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH    1       PLAIN
> service=IMAP    secured lip=X.X.X.X  rip=X.X.X.Xresp=AGJicm9vbQBlZTBuQHJkMA==
> Jan 14 09:19:05 Info: auth(default): pam(user1,X.X.X.X):
> pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure
> "
>
>
> Li
>
>
> On 1/14/06, seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 10:31 -0500, Li Cai wrote:
> > > I am trying to migrate from UW imap to dovecot.
> > >
> > > OS: RHEL 3  X86
> > > MTA: Postfix
> > > Auth: PAM (NIS server)
> > >
> > > Most of the users are fine, but I have some users have problems:
> > >
> > > "
> > > Jan 14 09:18:42 Info: imap-login: Internal login failure:
> > > user=<user1>, method=PLAIN, rip=X.X.X.X, lip=X.X.X.X, TLS
> > > "
> >
> > what does the secure.log say when this happens? Is there a pam auth
> > failure just before this?
> >
> > -sv
> >
> >
> >
>
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