Re: [Dovecot] PAM child process timed out, killing it.

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:21 +0300, Mart Pirita wrote:

Aug 30 05:57:09 stan dovecot: auth(default): pam(user1,172.18.1.25): PAM child process 1266 timed out, killing it

Your PAM modules are getting stuck. Probably has nothing to do with Dovecot itself.

What userdb do you use? You could try adding blocking=yes to passdb pam's args or if you're using userdb passwd add blocking=yes to its args.