dovecot - Mar 2008 - interesting note - not sure just how to take care of this one

Hello all,

the dovecot -> ldap connection is working correctly but I notice 
something in my maillog that is disturbing:

dovecot.conf in the passdb section I have

passdb passwd {
}

then it drops down into the ldap stuff.

The user gets  validated via this first and if it fails passes on to the 
ldap stuff.

the problem is:

in the file the user's unencrypted password is showing up as follows:

Mar 12 11:24:41 malaga dovecot: auth(default): 
pam(jnorris,XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication 
failure
Mar 12 11:24:41 malaga dovecot: auth(default): 
passwd(jnorris,XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX): lookup
Mar 12 11:24:41 malaga dovecot: auth(default): 
passwd(jnorris,XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX): Password mismatch
Mar 12 11:24:41 malaga dovecot: auth(default): 
passwd(jnorris,XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX): CRYPT("the uncrypted password in plain 
text here") != 'x'

is there a way to disable this?

thanks.


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#Joseph Norris (Linux/Apache/Mysql/Perl - what else is there?)
print @c=map chr $_+100,(6,17,15,16,-68,-3,10,11,
16,4,1, 14,-68,12,1,14,8, -68,4,-3,-1,7,1,14,-68,
-26,11,15,1,12, 4,-68,-22,11,14,14,5,15,-90);

On 3/12/2008 4:20 PM, Joseph Norris wrote:
> in the file the user's unencrypted password is showing up as follows:
> 
> Mar 12 11:24:41 malaga dovecot: auth(default): 
> pam(jnorris,XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication 
> failure
> Mar 12 11:24:41 malaga dovecot: auth(default): 
> passwd(jnorris,XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX): lookup
> Mar 12 11:24:41 malaga dovecot: auth(default): 
> passwd(jnorris,XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX): Password mismatch
> Mar 12 11:24:41 malaga dovecot: auth(default): 
> passwd(jnorris,XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX): CRYPT("the uncrypted password in
plain
> text here") != 'x'
> 
> is there a way to disable this?
dovecot -n output might hep... sounds like a config issue (debug 
enabled) to me...

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Best regards,

Charles