Problem with pop3 - I think something with authentication

[Maish Saidel-Keesing]

Centos 3.5 VPS machine
was installed with a minimum of packages

pop3ad runnning under xinetd.

When pop3'ing in to the server I get an error no matter what user I login with.

-ERR Authentication failed (bad password?)

from var/log/maillog
Jun 13 11:04:20 NV7258-Atid-E-D-I popa3d[7492]: Authentication failed for root from xx.xx.xx.xx

Tried to install dovecot but that does not work either,

HELP??????

[Vernon Brown_4 · Accepted solution]

May be a problem logging in as root. Make sure your mail users have regular login accounts on the server?

[Steven E. Protter]

Its not root. I've seen the server in this case.

ITRC'ers, lets demonstrate how good ITRC is at this. I'm stumped.

Zero pts please.

SEP

[Ivan Ferreira]

I prefer dovecot, what is the authentication method that you are using? Can you share the pop3 pam related files located in /etc/pam.d

[Steven E. Protter]

Same results dovecot. We're stumped and focused on the authentication issue.

pwck shows no problems.

SEP

[Maish Saidel-Keesing]

Firstly, thankls for all the speedy reply and help.

OK. Thanks Vernon.

It looks like the problem was root. I have opened other accounts and can retreive pop from the server.

Now another question
The authentication process takes almost 20 seconds

Here is the output of /etc/pam.d/popa3d

auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
account required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
password required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
session required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth


Can you help me out?

[Vernon Brown_4]

Some of my pop3 accounts take about 20 seconds to seem to connect; I always thought it was my spam filters churning away.