Hi Gentoo-users, after playing with PAM for a few days I discovered one strange thing: PAM adds ".db" suffix to database definition on its own! What I mean is following: _____________________
more /etc/pam.d/postfix auth required pam_userdb.so db=/etc/postfix/virtual_users.db account required pam_userdb.so db=/etc/postfix/virtual_users.db ls -l /etc/postfix/virtual_users.db -rw------- 1 root root 12288 Aug 20 18:45 /etc/postfix/virtual_users.db testsaslauthd -u user1 -p password1 -s postfix 0: NO "authentication failed" tail -n1 saslauth.log saslauthd: pam_userdb(postfix:auth): user_lookup: could not open database '/etc/postfix/virtual_users.db': no such file or directory ______________________ Then I changed /etc/pam.d/postfix to: auth required pam_userdb.so db=/etc/postfix/virtual_users account required pam_userdb.so db=/etc/postfix/virtual_users And now everything works. But there is no /etc/postfix/virtual_users file, only /etc/postfix/virtual_users.db! So it seems to me PAM adds ".db" to database-definition itself and user has to define it without ".db", otherwise what PAM is actually looking for is /etc/postfix/virtual_users.db.db Is this normal? Never seen this "Windows-like" behaviour with auto-adding suffix in *nix world. And I did not find anything about it in PAM-documentation. It says just: pam_userdb.so db=/path/database Not a single word that user has to cut ".db" suffix from "database" off. If all this is feature and not bug, then it should definitely be mentioned somewhere... Jarry -- _______________________________________________________________ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
