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[Peter Nelson <rufus-inet@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Dovecot (an IMAP mail server) stopped accepting connections last night.
This happened after libpam-smbpass was automatically upgraded.  Removing
the libpam-smbpass package dovecot works again.

Other users are reporting the same behavior here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2320889

>From /var/log/syslog:

Apr 18 15:01:04 SERVER dovecot: imap-login: Debug: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=1: SSL negotiation finished successfully [x.x.x.x]
Apr 18 15:01:05 SERVER t of memory [2971]
Apr 18 15:01:05 SERVER dovecot: auth-worker(2971): Error: pam(USER,x.x.x.x): pam_start() failed: Critical error - immediate abort
Apr 18 15:01:11 SERVER dovecot: auth-worker(2971): Error: pam(USER,x.x.x.x): pam_start() failed: Critical error - immediate abort
Apr 18 15:01:13 SERVER dovecot: imap-login: Debug: SSL alert: close notify [x.x.x.x]
Apr 18 15:01:13 SERVER dovecot: imap-login: Debug: SSL alert: close notify [x.x.x.x]
Apr 18 15:01:13 SERVER dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 2 attempts in 9 secs): user=<USER>, method=PLAIN, rip=x.x.x.x, lip=x.x.x.x, TLS, session=<OJk/f8kwbQDY5HAW>

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: libpam-smbpass 2:4.3.8+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-70.90~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt25
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-70-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 18 15:36:08 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-08 (466 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.3)
OtherFailedConnect: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SambaServerRegression: Yes
SmbConfIncluded: No
SourcePackage: samba
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: samba (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1571883

Title:
  libpam-smbpass:amd64 (2:4.3.8+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.2) causes PAM
  failure for dovecot

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