[Dovecot] PAM child process timed out, killing it.

Mart Pirita sysadmin at e-positive.ee
Sun Sep 9 11:36:22 EEST 2007


Tere.
>
> The only changes to dovecot-auth between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 were for LDAP 
> code, which you aren't using. So I think the problem has more to do 
> with the binary getting compiled a bit differently, causing random 
> problems in a buggy PAM module.
Ok.
>
> So where do PAM and passwd do the lookups from?
Lookups, hmm, do You mean where passwords are defined and stored. I'm 
using system accounts, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow etc..

> If you're using pam_ldap+nss_ldap you really need the blocking=yes for 
> them to work right.
I'm not using LDAP.
>
> Or both. If you're doing LDAP or other remote lookups it's a good idea 
> to set it to both.
Ok, I'll try tomorrow version 1.0.4 and blocking=yes in passdb: and userdb:

-- 
Mart



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