[Dovecot] PAM, Active Directory, all users mapped to uid=0

Matt Zukowski mzukowski at urbacon.net
Tue May 1 18:33:21 EEST 2007


Ah nevermind, I'm a moron.... I had:

userdb static {
  args = uid=root gid=root home=/home/URBACON/%u
}

I've commented that out and things are working great.


Matt Zukowski wrote:
> I'm having a problem with authentication using PAM, connected on the 
> back end to Active Directory. PAM authentication itself works fine. We 
> can log in to the machine using AD credentials without any problems. 
> Each user is automatically mapped to uid's in the 10000+ range.
>
> However, for some reason when the user logs in via dovecot, the user's 
> uid and gid are showing up as 0. For example:
>
> dovecot: May 01 11:22:47 Info: auth(default): master out: USER  
> 3       mzukowski       uid=0   gid=0   home=/home/URBACON/mzukowski
> dovecot: May 01 11:22:47 Error: Logins with UID 0 not permitted (user 
> mzukowski)
>
> Is there a reason why dovecot might not be resolving the uid and gid 
> correctly? PAM itself seems to be doing this right, since when I log 
> on to the machine as an AD user, their UID shows up correctly as 10000+.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt.
>
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