Hello! I recently compiled dovecot 0.99.7 on a FreeBSD 4.3 server, and have been having problems with logging in and password authentication. a. I can't seem to get it to compile MD5 support -- it only seems to support plain, plain-file, and pam. b. Whenever I try to log in, I always get something along the following lines in /var/log/messages .... Jan 16 17:52:15 akira imap-login: close(master) failed: Bad file descriptor Jan 16 17:55:33 akira imap-auth: Userinfo pam doesn't support DIGEST-MD5 method Jan 16 18:08:28 akira imap-master: Login process died too early - shutting down (I also included one about MD5 in there too! :-)) Basically, the imap-login process is dying every time I try to do a login from a remote machine (I've tried Evolution and Outlook Express ....) I've tried telling it to use port 143 and port 993 (where it correctly generates a warning about a certificate that it can't verify, since i created that certificate with mkcert.sh ) Is there something I haven't configured correctly? The only things I've changed in dovecot.conf are: Any suggestions? Thanks, Marc.
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 07:56, Mark wrote:> I recently compiled dovecot 0.99.7 on a FreeBSD 4.3 server, and have > been having problems with logging in and password authentication. > > a. I can't seem to get it to compile MD5 support -- it only seems to > support plain, plain-file, and pam.Do you mean Digest-MD5? That's an authentication mechanism, like plain. PAM and passwd-file are different things, they're used to check if password is correct.> b. Whenever I try to log in, I always get something along the following > lines in /var/log/messages .... > > > Jan 16 17:55:33 akira imap-auth: Userinfo pam doesn't support DIGEST-MD5 > methodPAM and Digest-MD5 can't work together, so it complains. Digest-MD5 requires that the passwords are stored in special format, currently supported only by passwd-file.