[Dovecot] Dovecot auth-worker permission denied.

Romer Ventura rventura at h-st.com
Wed Dec 3 00:48:57 EET 2008


There is nothing being logged by PAM, that's the only error I see


On 11/29/08 8:24 PM, "Timo Sirainen" <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 15:52 -0600, Romer Ventura wrote:
>>     I followed the tutorials from the wiki page from:
>> http://www.linuxmail.info/active-directory-dovecot-pam-authentication/
> 
> I don't know much about Kerberos, but:
> 
>> Nov 26 15:12:27 housigma20 dovecot: auth-worker(default):
>> pam(linuxt,127.0.0.1): pam_authenticate() failed: Permission denied
> 
> PAM plugin fails by giving "Permission denied" error. Perhaps PAM's own
> logs would show something more? /var/log/auth.log or something similar.
> 
> dovecot-auth processes are running as root anyway I guess? Then there
> really shouldn't be any permission problems, so I guess it's some kind
> of a PAM/Kerberos misconfiguration.
> 




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