[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2.x passwd and shadow auth w/ PAM

[Steven King]

Interesting... #2 corrected it. Set the auth process to run as root...

Is that safe?

On 5/10/11 6:13 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 11.5.2011, at 1.10, Steven King wrote:
>
>> Turning on auth debugging
>>
>> May 10 18:09:22 auth(default): Info: shadow(mjb,69.2.98.5): lookup
>> May 10 18:09:22 auth(default): Info: shadow(mjb,69.2.98.5): unknown user
>>
>> These messages suggest that the auth mechanisms can't find the user. Though the user clearly exists in both /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.
> getspnam() doesn't see the user existing. There are 3 possibilies that I can think of:
>
> 1) the user truely doesn't exist in there
>
> 2) the file can't be opened due to auth process being run without root privileges (default in v2.0) - dovecot -n output would show this
>
> 3) SELinux or similar preventing Dovecot from accessing /etc/shdadow
>

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Steve King

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