Tere.
Your PAM modules are getting stuck. Probably has nothing to do with
Dovecot itself.
But I haven't change/install/upgrade anything, but the Dovecot. And
version 1.0.3 gives errors like crazy, 1.0.2 from time to time and older
versions none? Seems something in new Dovecot versions drives PAM crazy.
What userdb do you use?
Hmm, passwd, dovecot -n:
auth default:
verbose: yes
worker_max_count: 90
process_size: 512
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
You could try adding blocking=yes to passdb
pam's args or if you're using userdb passwd add blocking=yes to its
args.
So either passdb or userdb, but not to both?
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Mart