Hi all,

I was looking to upgrade my dovecot .99.14 installation to 1.0alpha5
today and bumped into an issue.

My setup is on Mac OS X 10.4 and I am using

After reading http://wiki.dovecot.org/UpgradingDovecot , I created a
default dovecot.conf file with the following information grabbed from
my prior installation:

Snow:~ ed$ grep -v '^ *#' /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf|grep -v ^$ ssl_disable = yes login = imap login = pop3 auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam login auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes

So as you can see, I use passwd and pam as my authentication db.

So I copied over the dovecot-example.conf and as far as I know the
only modifications I needed to make to the default file were to
disable ssl and set the verbose and debug auth. Keep in mind that
passwd/pam db methods work with .99.14 but with 1.0alpha5, I get the
following:

Jan 14 15:55:16 Snow dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha5 starting up Jan 14 15:58:15 Snow dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AGVkAGFic2ludGhlMzM= Jan 14 15:58:15 Snow dovecot: auth(default): pam(ed,127.0.0.1):
pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure Jan 14 15:58:15 Snow dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=ed Jan 14 15:58:21 Snow dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 2 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AGVkAGFic2ludGhlMzM= Jan 14 15:58:21 Snow dovecot: auth(default): pam(ed,127.0.0.1):
pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure Jan 14 15:58:21 Snow dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 2 user=ed

and so on and so forth.

Any idea what could be causing this or how to debug this further ?

Thanks in advance,

Erik

PS: my pam setup for dovecot is:

Snow:~ ed$ more /etc/pam.d/dovecot auth required pam_unix.so nullok account required pam_unix.so