[Dovecot] RC1 broken - Authentication Failed

Marc Perkel marc at perkel.com
Sat Jul 1 21:35:02 EEST 2006



Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 07:32 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
>   
>> Works great with all the beta versions. I installed RC1 and get massive authentication failures.
>>
>>
>> auth_debug_passwords = yes
>> auth_master_user_separator=*
>>
>> auth default_with_listener {
>>   mechanisms = plain
>>
>>   passdb passwd-file {
>>     # Master users that can log in as anyone
>>     args = /etc/dovecot.masterusers
>>     master = yes
>>     #pass =yes
>>   }
>>
>>   passdb passwd-file {
>>     # Path for passwd-file
>>     args = /etc/vmail/shadow.%d
>>   }
>>
>>   userdb passwd-file {
>>     # Path for passwd-file
>>     args = /etc/vmail/passwd.%d
>>   }
>>
>>   socket listen {
>>     master {
>>       path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
>>       mode = 0666
>>     }
>>   }
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>> dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:57 Info: auth(default): pam(mark at marxmail.net,64.81.213.137): pam_authenticate() failed: 
>> Authentication failure
>>     
>
> It seems to be using wrong dovecot.conf file. Above there's no PAM
> configured, but here it's using PAM.
>   

Right - hmmmmm - so why would it be using the wrong one? The one I want 
it to use is /etc/dovecot.conf. Is there another default?
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