dovecot - Sep 2005 - Dovecot Error: Master requested auth for nonexisting client

Hello,

The subject line says it all. It seems to be happening with regards to 
my default auth setting in the dovecot.conf file. I currently have it 
set to 'plain'. Am I missing something? FWIW, I am using the latest, 
stable (alpha) release: 1.0.alpha3


PE Virgo

On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 15:36 -0400, Paul E Virgo wrote:
> The subject line says it all. It seems to be happening with regards to 
> my default auth setting in the dovecot.conf file. I currently have it 
> set to 'plain'. Am I missing something? FWIW, I am using the
latest,
> stable (alpha) release: 1.0.alpha3
It happens every time when trying to authenticate? With what OS?

IIRC there was some Linux kernel patch that caused this problem when
fork() returned different process ID than what the child's getpid()
returns.

See if this patch helps, it was already added to CVS for other reasons:

diff -u -r1.25 -r1.26
--- src/login-common/main.c	14 May 2005 20:32:06 -0000	1.25
+++ src/login-common/main.c	24 Sep 2005 12:25:25 -0000	1.26
@@ -190,7 +205,7 @@
         closing_down = FALSE;
 	main_refcount = 0;
 
-	auth_client = auth_client_new((unsigned int)getpid());
+	auth_client = auth_client_new(login_process_uid);
         auth_client_set_connect_notify(auth_client, auth_connect_notify, NULL);
 	clients_init();
 

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On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 15:36 -0400, Paul E Virgo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The subject line says it all. It seems to be happening with regards to 
> my default auth setting in the dovecot.conf file. I currently have it 
> set to 'plain'. Am I missing something? FWIW, I am using the
latest,
> stable (alpha) release: 1.0.alpha3
> 
> 
> PE Virgo
I am also unable to login via imap after upgrading to v1.0.alpha3.
Tried with and without ssl, and allowing plain text logins as well.

Enabling auth debugging doesn't seem to provide anything useful.

client out: FAIL 1

I am using FC4 with almost all default configs except for disabling pop
and the allowing plain text logins. Selinux is disabled on this machine.

Regards,
Ted