[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0.14 + osx 10.6 and authentication PAM

[Maarten Koster]

Howdy,

Today I installed the new version of Apple OSX 10.6. Besides that it 
deleted the dovecot user, things went quite smooth. As far as I can tell 
it is running as it used to.

However, I can't login to my account. It used to work fine with PAM 
taking the username and password from my osx installation. Now it 
doesn't allow me to login anymore.

I have read on a website that apple changed from Linux-Pam to Open-Pam. 
If this is true, how would I need to change the PAM entry file? Right 
now it is as follows:

/etc/pam.d/dovecot:

    # dovecot: auth account password session
    auth required pam_nologin.so
    auth sufficient pam_securityserver.so
    auth sufficient pam_unix.so
    auth required pam_deny.so
    account required pam_permit.so
    password required pam_deny.so
    session required pam_uwtmp.so

Here is a list with all dovecot processes

Maarten-2:sbin maarten$ ps auxw|grep "dovecot\|imap\|pop3"
maarten    249   1,1  0,0  2435032    528 s000  S+    3:21pm   0:00.00 
grep dovecot\|imap\|pop3
dovecot    218   0,0  0,0   602248    660   ??  S     3:06pm   0:00.08 
imap-login
root       215   0,0  0,0   601144    636   ??  S     3:06pm   0:00.08 
dovecot-auth
root       214   0,0  0,0   599940    356   ??  Ss    3:06pm   0:00.11 
./dovecot
dovecot    238   0,0  0,0   602248    660   ??  S     3:17pm   0:00.03 
imap-login
dovecot    221   0,0  0,0   602248    660   ??  S     3:06pm   0:00.08 
imap-login

and here is my Dovecot configuration:

# 1.0.14: /opt/etc/dovecot.conf
Warning: mail_extra_groups setting was often used insecurely so it is 
now deprecated, use mail_access_groups or mail_privileged_group instead
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
protocols: imap
ssl_disable: yes
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login
login_executable: /opt/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
mail_extra_groups: mail
mail_access_groups: mail
default_mail_env: maildir:~/Maildir
mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
auth default:
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: passwd

Thanks in advance,

Maarten