[Dovecot] Error "make install" of dovecot 1.0b3 - Working !

[David A. Lee]

4) -- that was prety obvious, the log file told me what was going on.  Its 
also somehwat documented.
However 3) was a total mystery to me.  All the debug log said even with full 
debugging was  "Authentication Failed"

I had never used pam before (even after 25 years of unix programming ... ) 
and had absolutely no clue what to do.
After looking through the source code for about an hour I found the function 
call it was using (pam_authenticate) and then  about another hour looking 
through the worthless pam man pages and trying about a dozen things I 
finally guessed right and it worked.

I think a comment in the config or install notes would really really help 
out a beginner.



On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 22:08 -0500, David A. Lee wrote:
> 3) I had to create a "dovecot" service in my /etc/pam.d/ directory
>
> 4) had to add "mail" as an extra group to get write access to /var/mail
..
> Who would I send these notes to hopefully get these issues either fixed or
> documented ?

I don't know how I could anything about these. They're both
site-specific settings, not everyone wants them. I could add a reminder
about /etc/pam.d/dovecot to config file I suppose..