Hi. I've just compiled and installed 1.0beta7 on MacOSX 10.4.6. I
have lost the battle with PAM authentication. When I connect to the
IMAP server and provide the correct user name and password, the mail
client is told authentication failed. Here's what's in the log:
Apr 21 22:47:43 shaun dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 2 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=195.54.233.68 rip=195.54.233.69 resp=AGppbQB1bmxpbmsoLik= Apr 21 22:47:43 shaun dovecot: auth(default): pam(jim,195.54.233.69): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure Apr 21 22:47:45 shaun dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 2 user=jim Apr 21 22:47:53 shaun dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 3 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=195.54.233.68 rip=195.54.233.69 resp=AGppbQB1bmxpbmsoLik= Apr 21 22:47:53 shaun dovecot: auth(default): pam(jim,195.54.233.69): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure Apr 21 22:47:53 shaun dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 3 user=jim Apr 21 22:47:55 shaun dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<jim>, method=PLAIN, rip=195.54.233.69, lip=195.54.233.68, TLS
After some googling, I found a posting from this list that claimed
the following PAM setup would work for MacOSX:
# dovecote: auth account password session auth required pam_nologin.so auth sufficient pam_securityserver.so auth sufficient pam_unix.so auth required pam_deny.so account required pam_permit.so password required pam_deny.so session required pam_uwtmp.so
It didn't. :-( If it had, I wouldn't be posting this. :-)
BTW, that posting said the wiki entry for PAM didn't work on MacOSX.
Which is true. I tried that unsuccessfully too.
Can anyone shed any light on what's been misconfigured or how to turn
on enough debugging to show where I'm going wrong? Thanks.
BTW, here's what I think is the relevant bit of dovecote.conf:
auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { args = dovecot } userdb passwd { } user = root }