[Dovecot] PAM authentication problems

[Timo Sirainen]

On Oct 5, 2008, at 12:37 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Oct 4, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Tom Lobato wrote:
>
>> Oct  3 09:00:10 coan dovecot: auth(default):
>> pam(rodrigo.botan,121.120.119.179): pipe() failed: Too many open  
>> files
>
> Set this to non-zero:
>
> # Number of auth requests to handle before destroying the process.  
> This may
> # be useful if PAM plugins leak memory.
> #auth_worker_max_request_count = 0

Oops, sorry, you're using v1.0.rc15 which doesn't have this setting.  
In that case I don't really know why it's failing. Look at /proc/ 
`pidof dovecot-auth`/fd/. Where are all the file descriptors going?

In any case I'd suggest upgrading to a newer version (from  
backports.org). That alone might fix the problem.

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