Grzegorz Staniak
2013-Aug-08 09:58 UTC
[Dovecot] Errors in SASL authentication ("attempted master login")
Hi, I'm using dovecot 2.2.4 (with Postfix 2.8.4) as both the SASL authentication backend and the delivery agent, and I keep getting lines like the following in the dovecot.log from the authentication subsystem: auth: passdb(toshiba1 at domain,8.8.8.8,master): Attempted master login with no master passdbs (trying to log in as user: plain) The connections come from an old (embedded) mail client in a printer-fax machine. I googled for this specific error, but I only found info about old clients using "user\0user\0pass" string incorrectly during authentication, which caused a problem for earlier, development versions of dovecot. Actually, I recently migrated from 1.2 to 2.2.4 exactly to alleviate this situation, but the errors persist. Is there a way to remove the problem or work around it? Regards, GS -- Grzegorz Staniak <gstaniak [at] gmail _dot_ com>
Timo Sirainen
2013-Aug-12 14:35 UTC
[Dovecot] Errors in SASL authentication ("attempted master login")
On 8.8.2013, at 12.58, Grzegorz Staniak <gstaniak at gmail.com> wrote:> I'm using dovecot 2.2.4 (with Postfix 2.8.4) as both the SASL > authentication backend and the delivery agent, and I keep getting > lines like the following in the dovecot.log from the authentication > subsystem: > > auth: passdb(toshiba1 at domain,8.8.8.8,master): Attempted master login > with no master passdbs (trying to log in as user: plain) > > The connections come from an old (embedded) mail client in a > printer-fax machine. I googled for this specific error, but I only > found info about old clients using "user\0user\0pass" string > incorrectly during authentication, which caused a problem for earlier, > development versions of dovecot. Actually, I recently migrated from > 1.2 to 2.2.4 exactly to alleviate this situation, but the errors > persist. Is there a way to remove the problem or work around it?So in general authentication works, but not from this client? Sounds like the client is using a broken SASL authentication. Nothing you can really do about it. Note that the above Dovecot message is an "info" message, not an error message.