[Dovecot] SSL Certifcates

[Timo Sirainen]

On Aug 8, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Stephen Feyrer wrote:

> Thanks, I will persevere.  I would like to point out that I'm only  
> using  PAM as it seems the best way to get email to system users.  I  
> am open to another method that might work.

Anything that allows you to log in without password checking. For  
example a passwd-file containing only valid usernames and nopassword  
field. Or maybe SQLite query always returning success.

> My pam.d/imap file now looks like this.
>
> # Provided by mailbase (dont remove this line!)
> # Standard pam.d file for mail service packages.
> # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-mail/mailbase/files/common- 
> pamd-include,v 1.1 2005/04/29 13:07:50 ticho Exp $
>
> #auth       required     pam_nologin.so
> auth       required     pam_allow.so
> auth       include      system-auth
> account    include      system-auth
> session    include      system-auth
>
> This fails the authentication.

Yes, because you're still doing a system-auth lookup. You want to  
allow anyone to log in with any user/pass combination, so only keep  
the pam_allow.so line there.

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