[Dovecot] [PATCH] to fix 2 pam issues

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Apr 3 06:37:22 EEST 2007


On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 16:42 -0600, Phil Oleson wrote:
> Timo,
> 
> 	I finally made the time to backport a pam fix I created for proftpd over
> to dovecot, that allows FreeBSD's pam_group to work as expected.  (the bug was
> escalated to me internally hehe.. ).

I added this to CVS HEAD, but I don't think I'll add it for v1.0. Maybe
for v1.0.1.

> I also noticed an issue while testing that will be confusing to users. If the
> docs stay as is, or the other half of this patch is applied, then when the
> dovecot.conf contains:
> 
> passdb pam {
>      args = *
> }
> 
> the imap files within etc/pam.d right now have to be named 'IMAP' and
> 'POP3' rather than the expected 'imap' and 'pop3'.  The attached patch fixes
> the code to match the docs.

Linux PAM actually lowercases them internally, so I hadn't noticed. If I
change this it could break some existing installations.. But I guess
it's better to do it now than have it confusingly work in different
ways. Changed.
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