Ubuntu Auth Issues with new repository code..

[Noel Butler]

On 28/12/2017 07:38, Howard Leadmon wrote:

> Saw the new repository notification, and figured what the heck I would try letting it upgrade me from the current v2.2.22 release that apparently is in the Ubuntu 16.04 packages, to the new repository release of v2.3.0.
> 
> I followed the info on repo.dovecot.org, and first it started bitching about lmtp (dovecot: master: Fatal: service(lmtp) access(/usr/lib/dovecot/lmtp) failed: No such file or directory), so I went back and installed the dovecot-lmtpd package and that seemed to fix that issue.  Just FYI, I had dovecot-core, dovecot-imapd, and dovecot-pop3d installed on the system.
> 
> OK, so now it started up, said it was 2.3.0 and I thought all was good, but now all authentication is failing.  I turned on some of the logging debugging, and am seeing the below:
> 
> dovecot: auth-worker(19578): Debug: pam(toss1,127.0.0.1,<IR3NJlZhFtZ/AAAB>): lookup service=dovecot
> dovecot: auth-worker(19578): Debug: pam(toss1,127.0.0.1,<IR3NJlZhFtZ/AAAB>): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password:
> dovecot: auth-worker(19578): pam(toss1,127.0.0.1,<IR3NJlZhFtZ/AAAB>): pam_authenticate() failed: System error
> dovecot: auth: Debug: client passdb out: FAIL#0111#011user=toss1
> dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts in 3 secs): user=<toss1>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.1.1, session=<IR3NJlZhFtZ/AAAB>
> 
> I took and compared my auth files like 10-auth.conf, and auth-system.conf.ext, and they are identical between the two versions, even though they were overwritten as part of the upgrade.
> 
> If I just uninstall the 2.3.0 release, and install 2.2.22 back on the server, it all just starts working again.    So for now I am back on 2.2, but was willing to give 2.3 a run if I can get it going.   Any ideas as to what to look at to get this working, would be great.   As stated above, this is Ubuntu Server 16.04.03, and I am also running Postfix and amavis-new, but don't think they should really impact me using dovecot for email over POP3 or IMAP..
> 
> ---
> Howard Leadmon
> PBW Communications, LLC
> http://www.pbwcomm.com

Why on earth you think you could upgrade versions by using two unrelated
and different repo's is beyond me. 

This has always been a problem, even back in the 90's with the RPMs, RH
v say for example Fresh, because package maintainers will package
differently. 

Its like trying to stick a cisco 1800 image on an ASR9K and expecting it
to work perfectly. 

Though we don't use deb or rpm based systems and haven't for about 15
years, if I was to, I think I'd be using the creators version, and not a
distro's version.

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Kind Regards, 

Noel Butler 

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