On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 11:07 -0500, C. Bensend wrote: > > So it's either > > > > NUL username NUL password > > > > or > > > > username NUL username NUL password > > It's username then password.
What about the NUL characters in the middle? Those are important. > Should I try the straight dovecot package instead of the postgresql > flavor? I'm not *using* PostgreSQL to authenticate, but it could > cause an issue I guess... I doubt that makes a difference. > One more thing - I ktraced the dovecot processes, and caught the > failure: > > 24165 dovecot-auth RET write 9 > 24165 dovecot-auth CALL read(0xd,0x8550e034,0x2000) > 24165 dovecot-auth PSIG SIGCHLD caught handler=0x1c02a8f0 mask=0x0 > 24165 dovecot-auth RET read -1 errno 4 Interrupted system call > 24165 dovecot-auth CALL write(0x8,0xcfbbfa77,0x1) > 24165 dovecot-auth GIO fd 8 wrote 1 bytes > "\0" > > > Does that help at all? That code is OpenBSD's auth_userokay() call in libc. I don't know if its behavior is correct or not.
