[Dovecot] Authentication fails

CJ Keist cj.keist at colostate.edu
Tue Sep 16 00:24:06 EEST 2008


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Timo,
   Thanks I'll give that a shot.

As for the Cyrus greeting, if someone is going to try and hack into my
system I should at least point them in the wrong direction ;).


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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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