dovecot - Mar 2006 - Error "make install" of dovecot 1.0b3 - Working !

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David A. Lee" <dlee at calldei.com>
To: "Timo Sirainen" <tss at iki.fi>; <dovecot at
dovecot.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Error "make install" of dovecot 1.0b3 - Working
!

> 4) -- that was prety obvious, the log file told me what was going on.  Its 
> also somehwat documented.
> However 3) was a total mystery to me.  All the debug log said even with 
> full debugging was  "Authentication Failed"
>
> I had never used pam before (even after 25 years of unix programming ... ) 
> and had absolutely no clue what to do.
> After looking through the source code for about an hour I found the 
> function call it was using (pam_authenticate) and then  about another hour 
> looking through the worthless pam man pages and trying about a dozen 
> things I finally guessed right and it worked.
>
> I think a comment in the config or install notes would really really help 
> out a beginner.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 22:08 -0500, David A. Lee wrote:
>> 3) I had to create a "dovecot" service in my /etc/pam.d/
directory
>>
>> 4) had to add "mail" as an extra group to get write access to
/var/mail
> ..
>> Who would I send these notes to hopefully get these issues either fixed
>> or
>> documented ?
>
> I don't know how I could anything about these. They're both
> site-specific settings, not everyone wants them. I could add a reminder
> about /etc/pam.d/dovecot to config file I suppose..
>
>