[Dovecot] passdb pam and userdb passwd "Authentication failure" errors

[Mark Alan]

On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:41:24 +0000, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> >   QUESTION 1: To avoid those Authentication failure errors should I
> >   also comment out the passdb pam {...} and userdb passwd {...}
> > blocks in the main /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > I was thinking in something like:
> > sudo sed -i '/passdb pam {/,/}/s/^/#/' /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> > sudo sed -i '/userdb passwd {/,/}/s/^/#/' /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> 
> No idea if that works.

Did that. It works. No more erros in the logs.


Thank you.

M.