Re: [arch-general] pambase in testing breaks email - *resolved*

2019-01-05 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
Requires adding files (if you haven't already got them) for both dovecot and postfix and not relying on the old 'other' catchall pam file. This is described in more detail in the forum posts [1]. Hoever I'm as yet not sure of the best postfix pam file. Perhaps others can comment. thank you.

Re: [arch-general] pambase in testing breaks email

2019-01-05 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
The problem stems from change to: /etc/pam.d/other which replaced password requiredpam_unix.so with password required pam_deny.so I wonder if this means that things like dovecot and postfix need to have explicit additional files in /etc/pam.d so that email authentication work

Re: [arch-general] pambase in testing breaks email

2019-01-05 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
Forgot to mention the perhaps obvious that postfix subsequently logs: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed Thank you.

[arch-general] pambase in testing breaks email

2019-01-05 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
pambase 20190105.1-1 caused bad failure for email. The error I saw immediately was from postfix failing to authenticate users via saslauthd which in turn blames pam. Downgrading back to 20171006-1 restores email funtioning ok. Logs say: saslauthd[22214]: pam_warn(smtp:auth): function=[pam_