I was more just asking about the other problems (I can worry about MD5 later ...). Even with the 99.7-2 patch, I cannot get any logins to work to my server. I always get the
"Authentication process died" message on my client, and messages in my /var/log/mess such as:
Jan 16 17:52:15 akira imap-login: close(master) failed: Bad file descriptor Jan 16 18:08:28 akira imap-master: Login process died too early - shutting down
- I can only connect to port 993, not 143
- I have the following changes in my dovecot.conf:
default_mail_env = mbox:~/.imapmail:INBOX=~/Mailbox # (incoming mail is ~/Mailbox, I want mail in ~/.imapmail)
Any ideas at all?
Thanks much!
ciao, mark.
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 04:06, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 07:56, Mark wrote:
I recently compiled dovecot 0.99.7 on a FreeBSD 4.3 server, and have been having problems with logging in and password authentication.
a. I can't seem to get it to compile MD5 support -- it only seems to support plain, plain-file, and pam.
Do you mean Digest-MD5? That's an authentication mechanism, like plain. PAM and passwd-file are different things, they're used to check if password is correct.
b. Whenever I try to log in, I always get something along the following lines in /var/log/messages ....
Jan 16 17:55:33 akira imap-auth: Userinfo pam doesn't support DIGEST-MD5 method
PAM and Digest-MD5 can't work together, so it complains. Digest-MD5 requires that the passwords are stored in special format, currently supported only by passwd-file.