[Imap-uw] imap on Debian Linux

[Paul Hancock]

> The ldb build definitely uses PAM.



> Most people ignore the flurry of build messages unless they have some 

> problem; and if there is a problem they pass the whole mess on to me and 

> say "help!"...  ;-)


Ha, well, as a matter of fact I am having a problem, and was attempting to 
find the solution myself before I thought to send an email to the list. 
It's a good thing I did, since I am apparently barking up the wrong tree.

I am trying to get imap to post an entry into /var/log/lastlog.  There is 
a PAM module that does this: /lib/security/pam_lastlog.so.  I have a 
'session optional pam_lastlog.so' line in the /etc/pam.d/imap file, but it 
does nothing.  Changing the line to 'session required' makes no 
difference.

I tried pam_lastlog.so in the common session file (which all PAM config 
files reference), just to ensure the module was working, and indeed, cron 
started updating lastlog.  Imap did not, however.

I need to get a better understanding of PAM, but does imap use PAM session 
hooks?  That might explain why this isn't working, since we've established 
that imap uses PAM.

Thanks for your help. :)

Paul