31 Jan
2008
31 Jan
'08
5:26 p.m.
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 12:00 -0500, Sean Smitz wrote:
pam(test,::ffff:128.8.244.15): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure .. type=USER_AUTH msg=audit(1200848003.207:195): user pid=29718 uid=0 auid=0 subj=root:system_r:dovecot_auth_t:s0 msg='PAM: authentication acct=test : exe="/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth" (hostname=::ffff:128.8.244.15, addr=::ffff:128.8.244.15, terminal=dovecot res=failed)'
Unfortunately PAM's logging doesn't tell much of anything about the actual problem.
It's anyway a PAM configuration issue. Make sure /etc/pam.d/dovecot exists and is correct.