On 08/05/2005 05:28 AM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > pam_abl would/should only blacklist those hosts or users with over the > limit failed login/auth attempts. You say each IMAP connection to the > dovecot server triggers a failed attempt and leads to blocking the user? Yes. Here is the result of 'pam_abl -v' shortly after user magnus was denied access. Reading config from /etc/security/pam_abl.conf Failed users: lars (9) Sat Aug 6 07:55:06 2005 Fri Aug 5 10:30:01 2005 Thu Aug 4 23:04:18 2005 Thu Aug 4 22:31:40 2005 Thu Aug 4 22:31:36 2005 Thu Aug 4 22:31:34 2005 Thu Aug 4 22:31:33 2005 Thu Aug 4 22:31:21 2005 Thu Aug 4 22:30:02 2005 magnus (40) Sat Aug 6 14:07:09 2005 Sat Aug 6 14:07:04 2005 Sat Aug 6 14:01:31 2005 Sat Aug 6 13:59:29 2005 Sat Aug 6 13:57:28 2005 Sat Aug 6 13:55:27 2005 Sat Aug 6 13:53:20 2005 Sat Aug 6 13:51:03 2005 Sat Aug 6 13:49:01 2005 Sat Aug 6 13:45:00 2005 Sat Aug 6 13:44:58 2005 Fri Aug 5 20:48:54 2005 Fri Aug 5 20:46:52 2005 Fri Aug 5 20:44:32 2005 Fri Aug 5 20:42:30 2005 Fri Aug 5 20:40:25 2005 Fri Aug 5 20:38:14 2005 Fri Aug 5 20:38:13 2005 Fri Aug 5 18:37:02 2005 Fri Aug 5 18:36:58 2005 Fri Aug 5 18:35:02 2005 Fri Aug 5 18:34:58 2005 Fri Aug 5 18:32:56 2005 Fri Aug 5 18:32:51 2005 Fri Aug 5 18:14:29 2005 Fri Aug 5 18:12:11 2005 Fri Aug 5 18:10:07 2005 Fri Aug 5 18:07:48 2005 Fri Aug 5 18:05:55 2005 Fri Aug 5 18:05:54 2005 Fri Aug 5 17:51:43 2005 Fri Aug 5 17:47:27 2005 Fri Aug 5 17:45:09 2005 Fri Aug 5 17:43:07 2005 Fri Aug 5 17:41:12 2005 Fri Aug 5 17:41:10 2005 Thu Aug 4 22:05:33 2005 Thu Aug 4 22:03:29 2005 Thu Aug 4 22:01:26 2005 Thu Aug 4 22:01:22 2005 Failed hosts: ------------ And here is the result of 'grep imap /var/log/maillog' Aug 4 21:45:32 server imap-login: Disconnected [81.216.166.177] Aug 4 21:46:11 server imap-login: Disconnected [81.216.166.177] Aug 4 22:01:22 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 4 22:01:26 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 4 22:03:29 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 4 22:05:33 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 4 22:28:23 server imap-login: Aborted login [127.0.0.1] Aug 4 22:30:02 server imap-login: Aborted login [127.0.0.1] Aug 4 22:31:21 server imap-login: Aborted login [127.0.0.1] Aug 4 22:31:33 server imap-login: Login: lars [127.0.0.1] Aug 4 22:31:40 server imap-login: Login: lars [127.0.0.1] Aug 4 23:04:18 server imap-login: Login: lars [192.168.0.9] Aug 5 10:30:01 server imap-login: Login: lars [192.168.0.9] Aug 5 17:41:10 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 5 17:41:12 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 5 17:43:07 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 5 17:45:09 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 5 17:47:27 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 5 17:51:43 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 5 18:05:54 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 5 18:10:07 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 5 18:12:13 server imap-login: Disconnected [81.216.166.177] Aug 5 18:14:30 server imap-login: Disconnected [81.216.166.177] Aug 5 18:32:53 server imap-login: Disconnected [81.216.166.177] Aug 5 18:35:03 server imap-login: Disconnected [81.216.166.177] Aug 5 18:36:59 server imap-login: Disconnected [81.216.166.177] Aug 5 18:37:59 server imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity [81.216.166.177] Aug 5 20:38:13 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 5 20:42:30 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 5 20:44:32 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 5 20:46:52 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 5 20:48:54 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 6 07:55:06 server imap-login: Login: lars [192.168.0.9] Aug 6 13:44:58 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 6 13:45:00 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 6 13:49:01 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 6 13:51:03 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 6 13:53:20 server imap-login: Login: magnus [81.216.166.177] Aug 6 13:55:28 server imap-login: Disconnected [81.216.166.177] Aug 6 13:57:36 server imap-login: Disconnected [81.216.166.177] Aug 6 14:00:06 server imap-login: Disconnected [81.216.166.177] Aug 6 14:02:28 server imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity [81.216.166.177] Aug 6 14:07:06 server imap-login: Disconnected [81.216.166.177] Aug 6 14:07:10 server imap-login: Disconnected [81.216.166.177] ------------- As you can see even the successful logins seem to be counted. > The PAM setup looks proper. What did you configure with pam_abl.conf? At the moment, nothing, it is the default. Nothing in the dovecot.conf file, regarding authorizing, have been changed. I will see if I can find something here causing this, if not I will put it all into bugzilla. Lars -- Lars E. Pettersson <lars@xxxxxxxx> http://www.sm6rpz.se/