[Dovecot] Authentication fails

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 13:27 -0600, CJ Keist wrote:
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> Been running dovecot 1.1.2 for about a month now.  I Have strange issue
> that I have not been able to trouble shoot.  What I'm seeing is that
> dovecot runs along just fine for about 4 days, and then it will just
> stop authenticating everyone (IMAP and POP).  No errors in the logs
> other than all authentication attempts comes out as password mismatch.
> The only fix is to stop and restart dovecot.

Sounds like a PAM issue. Set auth_worker_max_request_count to some
non-zero value.

> login_greeting: Cyrus ready.

? :)

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