dovecot --version

2.2.31 (65cde28) on freebsd 64 10.3

system converted to dovecot 2 against my will and consuming a lot of time sorting it out. i am glad google does not charge. have spent two hours on this one alone; and undoubtedly it is my st00pidity. so excuse my desperate posting to lazynet.

cram-md5 works, pam not so much

Aug 3 06:06:35 psg auth: in openpam_parse_chain(): /etc/pam.d/dovecot(1): missing or invalid facility Aug 3 06:06:35 psg dovecot: auth-worker(48815): Error: pam(elb,2604:6000:130d:c31b:d250:99ff:fe90:14dd,<Lyh6LtNVMq8mBGAAEw3DG9JQmf/+kBTd>): pam_start() failed: system error Aug 3 06:06:35 psg auth: in openpam_parse_chain(): /etc/pam.d/dovecot(1): missing or invalid facility Aug 3 06:06:35 psg dovecot: auth-worker(48815): Error: pam(elb,2604:6000:130d:c31b:d250:99ff:fe90:14dd,<Lyh6LtNVMq8mBGAAEw3DG9JQmf/+kBTd>): pam_start() failed: system error

2.2.31 (65cde28): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

OS: FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p20 amd64

auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 first_valid_gid = 0 mail_location = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = prefix = } passdb { args = scheme=cram-md5 /usr/local/etc/dovecot.cram-md5 driver = passwd-file name = passwd-file } passdb { driver = pam } passdb { driver = pam name = pam } pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = mail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { driver = passwd }

cat /etc/pam.d/dovecot

passdb { driver = pam args = failure_show_msg=yes args = %s }