dovecot - Mar 2003 - OSX & Authentication

Hi,

Taking a stab at getting OSX Server 10.2.4 running Dovecot -- with a 
minor tweak of replacing lchown() with chown() in the 
src/lib/sakfe-mkdir.c, it compiled and installed without any problems.

However, oddness in authentication.  It works once, but only once.  I'm 
trying to use pam and have the following:

auth       required     pam_securityserver.so
auth       sufficient     pam_unix.so
account    required       pam_unix.so

In the dovecot.conf I have (amongst other things):

auth_userdb = passwd
auth_passdb = pam

I start up dovecot and do:

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK dovecot ready.
. login scott pass
. OK Logged in.
. logout
* BYE Logging out
. OK Logout completed.

No problem.

However, try it again and:

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK dovecot ready.
. login scott pass
. NO Authentication failed.
. logout
* BYE Logging out
. OK Logout completed.



Perhaps there's a better way to get dovecot playing under osx; I'd 
tried a number of ways of using pam, but perhaps there's a magic other 
option I've not got working yet.  I do run the password server and my 
account name is using that as per the Workgroup Manager's settings (as 
opposed to Basic)...

Any thoughts appreciated!

Scott

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 19:49, Scott A.McIntyre wrote:
> Taking a stab at getting OSX Server 10.2.4 running Dovecot -- with a 
> minor tweak of replacing lchown() with chown() in the 
> src/lib/sakfe-mkdir.c, it compiled and installed without any problems.
This is fixed in CVS.
> However, oddness in authentication.  It works once, but only once.  I'm
> trying to use pam and have the following:
Can you login with another user name? What if you kill dovecot-auth
process, does that reset it so that you can login again?
> auth       required     pam_securityserver.so
What does this do? Does it contain user login limits of any kind? Just
thinking if something is waiting for the process that did PAM checking
to terminate before allowing to login again..
> . NO Authentication failed.
Setting "auth_verbose = yes" in config file would give better error
message.