[Dovecot] Looking to upgrade from .99.14 to 1.0alpha5

[Erik Dasque]

Hi all,

I was looking to upgrade my dovecot .99.14 installation to 1.0alpha5  
today and bumped into an issue.

My setup is on Mac OS X 10.4 and I am using

After reading http://wiki.dovecot.org/UpgradingDovecot , I created a  
default dovecot.conf file with the following information grabbed from  
my prior installation:

Snow:~ ed$ grep -v '^ *#' /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf|grep -v ^$
ssl_disable = yes
login = imap
login = pop3
auth = default
auth_mechanisms = plain
auth_userdb = passwd
auth_passdb = pam login
auth_user = root
auth_verbose = yes

So as you can see, I use passwd and pam as my authentication db.

So I copied over  the dovecot-example.conf and as far as I know the  
only modifications I needed to make to the default file were to  
disable ssl and set the verbose and debug auth. Keep in mind that  
passwd/pam db methods work with .99.14 but with 1.0alpha5, I get the  
following:

Jan 14 15:55:16 Snow dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha5 starting up
Jan 14 15:58:15 Snow dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH	1	PLAIN	 
service=IMAP	secured	lip=127.0.0.1	rip=127.0.0.1	 
resp=AGVkAGFic2ludGhlMzM=
Jan 14 15:58:15 Snow dovecot: auth(default): pam(ed,127.0.0.1):  
pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure
Jan 14 15:58:15 Snow dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL	1	user=ed
Jan 14 15:58:21 Snow dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH	2	PLAIN	 
service=IMAP	secured	lip=127.0.0.1	rip=127.0.0.1	 
resp=AGVkAGFic2ludGhlMzM=
Jan 14 15:58:21 Snow dovecot: auth(default): pam(ed,127.0.0.1):  
pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure
Jan 14 15:58:21 Snow dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL	2	user=ed

and so on and so forth.

Any idea what could be causing this or how to debug this further ?

Thanks in advance,

Erik

PS: my pam setup for dovecot is:

Snow:~ ed$ more /etc/pam.d/dovecot
auth    required        pam_unix.so nullok
account required        pam_unix.so