[Dovecot] PAM authentication problems

[Tom Lobato]

Timo Sirainen escreveu:
> 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.

great!
I upgraded dovecot (with backports.org package) and now it works.
I don`t know why it started to give such problems but the upgrade solved it.
thank you very much, Timo!


Tom Lobato