[Dovecot] Dovecot(-auth) crashes upon encountering a private key in .ssh

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sep 18, 2009, at 7:53 PM, atoth at atoth.sote.hu wrote:

> I've recently hit a bug after updating pam, while pam-ssh passphrase
> authentication become enabled.
> Dovecot-auth crashes as users having private a key stored in .ssh  
> try to
> log in.
> I have a gentoo system with dovecot-1.1.7 installed. PAM: 1.1.0.

This must be a bug in the pam plugin. Dovecot doesn't care about any  
of that and can't help it if a pam plugin crashes. Try removing the  
pam-ssh plugin from /etc/pam.d/dovecot (or whatever file it reads)