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Date:      Tue, 1 May 2001 16:21:54 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <marc.fournier@acadiau.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Cyrus IMAPd using PAM authentication under FreeBSD ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.31.0105011618580.8905-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010501112808.L86517-100000@atelier.acadiau.ca>

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On Tue, 1 May 2001, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
> Okay, I'm at a loss here, and hope someone has an idea of what I'm missing
> ...
>
> I installed cyrus-imapd and cyrus-sasl from ports under FreeBSD, that all
> appears to work great as long as I don't try and set sasl_pwcheck_method
> to PAM ... as soon as I set that, it fails.

You've got imap and pop configured to require unix auth.

> My pam.conf file looks like the following, in case I'm doing something
> obvious in there?
>
> ====================
> imap    auth    required        pam_smb_auth.so                 nolocal
>
> sieve   auth    sufficient      pam_unix.so
> sieve   auth    required        pam_smb_auth.so use_first_pass
>
> pop     auth    required        pam_smb_auth.so
>
> imap    auth    required        pam_unix.so                     try_first_pass
> pop3    auth    required        pam_unix.so                     try_first_pass
> ====================

Won't pam_unix.so require root priviledges to check for passwords in the
system database?

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