https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=331683 User kukuk@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=331683#c8 --- Comment #8 from Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@novell.com> 2008-01-09 05:44:35 MST --- (In reply to comment #7 from Joe Morris)
This is the same error message, but sshd instead of imapd. That is why I think it may be PAM.
No, this has nothing to do with PAM. The sshd messages are a bug in sshd, which was fixed meanwhile, but I don't know if it is released as maintenance update yet. This message means, that the application is calling a PAM function with the wrong privileges. In the most cases, this happens, if the application drops root privileges and than calls a PAM function. If authentication does not work and you see this PAM message, than most likely imapd is running with the wrong privileges and thus is not able to retrieve the user passwords from /etc/shadow for user authentication. But this is no PAM problem, PAM is not able to solve or workaround that, and there was no changes in this regard in PAM. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.