[Dovecot] Dovecot PAM problem

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 12:00 -0500, Sean Smitz wrote:
> pam(test,::ffff:128.8.244.15): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication 
> failure
..
> type=USER_AUTH msg=audit(1200848003.207:195): user pid=29718 uid=0 
> auid=0 subj=root:system_r:dovecot_auth_t:s0 msg='PAM: authentication 
> acct=test : exe="/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth" 
> (hostname=::ffff:128.8.244.15, addr=::ffff:128.8.244.15, 
> terminal=dovecot res=failed)'

Unfortunately PAM's logging doesn't tell much of anything about the
actual problem.

It's anyway a PAM configuration issue. Make sure /etc/pam.d/dovecot
exists and is correct.

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