On 2008-09-12 at 09:52 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> Tony Finch escreveu:
> > What do the dovecot logs say?
>
> dovecot: 2008-09-12 09:47:48 Error: auth-worker(default):
> pam(test.com.br,127.0.0.1): pam_authenticate() failed: User not known to
> the underlying authentication module
> dovecot: 2008-09-12 09:48:03 Error: auth(default): BUG: Authentication
> client gave a PID 21989 of existing connection
This is the problem fixed in CVS, the one I drew attention to. Cool, I
was actually right. ;-)
http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667
> 21989 AUTH 890 PLAIN service=smtp secured rip=127.0.0.1
> lip=127.0.0.1 resp=AHRlc3QuY29tLmJyAGFhYWEA
I'm very glad you used test data there instead of real data. :)
> It appears to be a problem on how exim talks to the authenticating
> program. Since Phil mentioned changes in version 4.69, I might try to
> upgrade exim, unless someone has any other ideas.
The changes were made *after* 4.69. They will be in 4.70 when 4.70 is
released.
There have been multiple improvements to Dovecot. But below is the fix
which Nigel Metheringham committed to CVS to fix this particular
problem; this should apply cleanly to 4.68.
-Phil
Index: src/auths/dovecot.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /repo/exim/exim-src/src/auths/dovecot.c,v
retrieving revision 1.8
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -p -u -r1.8 -r1.9
--- src/auths/dovecot.c 18 Jan 2008 12:23:26 -0000 1.8
+++ src/auths/dovecot.c 6 Feb 2008 12:44:59 -0000 1.9
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $Cambridge: exim/exim-src/src/auths/dovecot.c,v 1.8 2008/01/18 12:23:26 nm4 Exp $ */
+/* $Cambridge: exim/exim-src/src/auths/dovecot.c,v 1.9 2008/02/06 12:44:59 nm4 Exp $ */
/*
* Copyright (c) 2004 Andrey Panin <pazke@???>
@@ -369,6 +369,9 @@ int auth_dovecot_server(auth_instance *a
}
out:
+ /* close the socket used by dovecot */
+ if (fd >= 0)
+ close(fd);
/* Expand server_condition as an authorization check */
return (ret == OK)? auth_check_serv_cond(ablock) : ret;
