dovecot - Nov 2012 - doveadm fails with passdb authentication binds (dovecot 2.0.16)

Hello,

I'm testing passdb auth binds with dovecot 2.0.16, but for some reason
dovedm fails to work with the configuration showed below. The network trace
shows the successful bind for the administrative user (uid=mailapp), but nothing
for the mail user (uid=user001).

what am i missing here?


# doveadm mailbox list -u user001
doveadm(user001): Error: user user001: Auth PASS lookup failed
doveadm(user001): Fatal: passdb lookup failed


10-auth.conf:
===================
disable_plaintext_auth = no
auth_cache_size = 0
auth_cache_ttl = 0
auth_cache_negative_ttl = 0
auth_mechanisms = plain
!include auth-ldap.conf.ext


auth-ldap.conf.ext:
====================================
passdb {
? driver = ldap
? args = /etc/dovecot/passdb-dovecot-ldap.conf.ext
}
userdb {
? driver = ldap
? args = /etc/dovecot/userdb-dovecot-ldap.conf.ext
}



passdb-dovecot-ldap.conf.ext:
====================================
uris = ldap://ldap.example.com
dn = uid=mailapp,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
dnpass = xxxxxxxxxx
sasl_bind = no
tls = no
auth_bind = yes
ldap_version = 3
base = dc=example,dc=com
deref = never
scope = subtree
pass_attrs = uid=user
pass_filter = (uid=%n)



userdb-dovecot-ldap.conf.ext:
===================================
uris = ldap://ldap.example.com
dn = uid=mailapp,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
dnpass = xxxxxxxxxx
sasl_bind = no
tls = no
auth_bind = yes
ldap_version = 3
base = dc=example,dc=com
deref = never
scope = subtree
user_attrs =
mailbox=mail=maildir:/var/maildir/%$,homeFilter=home,mailQuota=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$
user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%n))
pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password,\
???
mailbox=userdb_mail=maildir:/var/maildir/%$,homeFilter=userdb_home,mailQuota=userdb_quota_rule=*:bytes=%$
pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%n))
iterate_attrs = uid=user
iterate_filter = (objectClass=posixMailAccount)

On 20.11.2012, at 17.54, mailing lists wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm testing passdb auth binds with dovecot 2.0.16, but for some reason
dovedm fails to work with the configuration showed below. The network trace
shows the successful bind for the administrative user (uid=mailapp), but nothing
for the mail user (uid=user001).
> 
> what am i missing here?
> 
> 
> # doveadm mailbox list -u user001
> doveadm(user001): Error: user user001: Auth PASS lookup failed
> doveadm(user001): Fatal: passdb lookup failed
Are you running this on a Dovecot proxy? It looks like doveadm wants to do a
passdb lookup to find out which server should handle this user. Passdb lookups
don't work with LDAP binding. But if everything else works then I think you
simply shouldn't have enabled doveadm proxying. So, set doveadm_proxy_port
back to 0?

Hello, 

>> # doveadm mailbox list -u user001
>> doveadm(user001): Error: user user001: Auth PASS lookup failed
>> doveadm(user001): Fatal: passdb lookup failed
> Are you running this on a Dovecot proxy? It looks like doveadm wants to do
a passdb lookup to find out which server should handle this user. Passdb lookups
don't work with LDAP binding. But if everything else works then I think you
simply shouldn't have enabled doveadm proxying. So, set doveadm_proxy_port
back to 0?
thank you Timo, setting doveadm_proxy_port to 0 did the trick.