[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2.x passwd and shadow auth w/ PAM

[Steven King]

Turning on auth debugging

May 10 18:09:22 auth(default): Info: shadow(mjb,69.2.98.5): lookup
May 10 18:09:22 auth(default): Info: shadow(mjb,69.2.98.5): unknown user

These messages suggest that the auth mechanisms can't find the user. 
Though the user clearly exists in both /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.

On 5/10/11 6:07 PM, Steven King wrote:
> I'm trying to get authentication to work without PAM and just use the 
> standard shadow and passwd files.
>
> auth default {
>
> userdb passwd {
> }
>
> passdb shadow {
> }
>
> }
>
> This seems to be valid code to use /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.
>
> My linux distro is using Salted MD5. Though Dovecot keeps telling me 
> that authentication failed. It doesn't give me any error messages 
> regarding the config.
>
> Any ideas?
>

-- 
Steve King

Senior Linux Engineer - Advance Internet, Inc.
Cisco Certified Network Associate
CompTIA Linux+ Certified Professional
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