[Dovecot] Authentication Problems.

Tom Ray [Lists] lists at blazestudios.com
Fri Jul 16 06:59:24 EEST 2004


Timo-

I did that and it seems to have helped a bit but now I'm getting this:

Jul 15 22:50:26 mx01-test dovecot-auth: PAM: 
pam_authenticate(tom at testdomain.com) failed: Authentication failure

I'm not using PAM is there a way to turn this off?

Timo Sirainen wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 03:02, Tom Ray [Lists] wrote:
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>>default_mail_env = 
>>mbox:/var/virtualdomains//%d/mail/%n/:INBOX=/var/virtualdomains/%d/mail/%n
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>Aren't you giving here the same file as both a directory and INBOX mbox
>file? That doesn't work. The first path is supposed to be a directory
>where dovecot can create non-INBOX files and it's indexes.
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>>It's my understanding that Dovecot can't parse out the domain name in 
>>the auth_userdb command so I modifed my setup to use just the one 
>>password file and modified it to this;
>>  user at doman.com:passwd:uid:gid:Virtual 
>>User:/var/virtualdomains/domain.com/mail/user:/dev/null
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>That should work.
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>>Ownership/Group:
>>-rwx------  1 dovecot dovecot 36 Jul 13 18:41 passwd
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>That depends on what you have put in auth_user. It shouldn't be the same
>as login_user, so dovecot user is probably wrong here.
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>>Is there a setting I have wrong, a step I'm misisng, a permission I 
>>don't know about....let me know if there is any other information you 
>>might need and I will provide it.
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>Set auth_verbose = yes, and check log files. It gives then exact reason
>why login failed.
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