Hello,

we use dovecot v1.1.16 on two servers with Solaris 9. This week both suddenly stopped authenticating users. The first server was startet on Jun 2 and ran until Jun 18 and the other startet on Jun 3 and failed on Jun 15. Both generated then lots of error messages, three for every user that attemps to login, looking like that:

Jun 15 08:35:23 minerva dovecot-auth[20831]: [ID 401707 user.error] open_module: /usr/lib/security/pam_unix_account.so.1 failed: ld.so.1: dovecot-auth: fatal: /usr/lib/security/pam_unix_account.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory Jun 15 08:35:23 minerva dovecot-auth[20831]: [ID 487707 user.error] load_modules: can not open module /usr/lib/security/pam_unix_account.so.1 Jun 15 08:35:23 minerva dovecot: [ID 107833 local0.error] auth-worker(default): pam(gp1071,134.176.2.89): pam_acct_mgmt() failed: Dlopen failure

The file /usr/lib/security/pam_unix_account.so.1 was still there and had not been changed.

Until these events there have been on both servers circa 1.600.000 logins.

After a restart dovecot did work again.

The configuration is:

# ulimit -n 8192

# /opt/local/sbin/dovecot -n # 1.1.16: /opt/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.9 sun4u
syslog_facility: local0 protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/server.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/server.key disable_plaintext_auth: no version_ignore: yes login_dir: /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 12 max_mail_processes: 4096 mail_location: mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_executable(default): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /opt/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xv%08Xu pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: Mail/ hidden: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd plugin: quota: fs:Home-Verzeichnis

Greetings, Jürgen

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