Sahil Tandon sahil@tandon.net wrote:
I am seeing the following errors in my log:
Jul 27 18:14:23 aegis dovecot: auth-worker(default_with_listener): pam(user@host.org,74.72.46.170): pam_authenticate() failed: authentication error Jul 27 18:14:23 aegis dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=user@host.org, method=PLAIN, rip=74.72.46.170, lip=206.251.255.39, TLS
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# dovecot -n # 1.1.1: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf listen: 127.0.0.1:143 ssl_listen: *:993 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_gid: 0 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep auth default_with_listener: mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/passwd
I guess order matters. Once I set the virtual user database to be queried before pam, the error is gone. Are there any side effects which I might not be considering? Thanks.
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-- Sahil Tandon sahil@tandon.net