SOLVED: Should anyone else run into this and debugging shows no issues, just random dovecot logins fails - there was a bad username stored. "pwck" showed it up. Only cost me 3 days
On 7 April 2016 at 17:24, Timo Sirainen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07 Apr 2016, at 19:02, Mobile Phone <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > pam(prtg.08dir,91.91.91.91): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication > > failure (password mismatch?) (given password: > YesThisWasTheCorrectPassword) > .. > > Why it this bouncing 25% + of IMAP AUTH LOGINs? > > PAM said that login wasn't allowed. PAM can have all kinds of plugins that > can do all kinds of things. Maybe you have enabled some PAM plugin that > denies the user's access even if the password is correct. Unfortunately > there's no way to enable debugging for PAM. Try simplifying your PAM setup, > or if you can't figure out anything else switch to passdb shadow. > >
