Hello, I'm running dovecot 2.0.x on a centos 5.6 machine. This is a new installation, I haven't even opened the firewall to it yet. I was trying to telnet localhost 143 and 110 trying to authenticate a user. I'm getting authentication failure in my maillog but no details. Here's the one line I get in my maillog:
May 14 15:33:42 ohio dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<user@example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
Here's a doveconf -n:
2.0.12: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
OS: Linux 2.6.38.3-linode32 i686 CentOS release 5.6 (Final) ext3
auth_default_realm = domain.com auth_mechanisms = plain login base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = * mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/vhosts/%d/%u maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix user = postfix } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
Here's how I constructed my users file:
Passwd-file for use with dovecot authentication
Used in a virtual setup
Username:{scheme}HashedPassword:UID:GID::
user:{SSHA512}hbLu+pCmhmtyKEwyAs3wv3kvHD/ryr0MoXOAq3VdB7X/g8qIE/xE9BG+eI4jhFk9pTyiCltPCjZxv5/+yK1wll2LNcw= :5000:5000::
My goal is to use this with a postfix virtual mailbox setup, the postfix part is already in place. The mailbox base is /var/spool/mail/vhosts and under that there's example.com which is the domain and under that the various users one just called user for this example. The Uid and Gid 5000 is the same one the postfix vmail user is running as that's the user who handles the virtual mailbox domains.
I'm suspecting my issue is in my users file or the definition of it in passwd-file{ i've been over the wiki for 2.0.x dovecot, this was definitely worth the upgrade by the way, and thus far have not found an answer.
I'd appreciate any help. Thanks. Dave.