[Dovecot] Fw: Cannot Authenticate via LDAP

Christian Wiese
2013-06-04T16:44:49Z

Hello Christian,
I tried what you suggested by adding "REFERALS off"
to /etc/ldap/ldap.conf and restarting slapd and dovecot, but the error
persists.


On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Christian Wiese <
christian.wiese at securepoint.de> wrote:

> Hi Ron,
>
> I didn't had the time to check all logs but the error log.
> First thing you should check if there are LDAP REFFERALS enabled in
> the systems ldap.conf.
> I had a similar looking issue and it took me a good amount of time to
> figure out that I had to disable LDAP REFFERALS globally.
> This happened when using an AD as LDAP backend, but also applies to
> Samba4 as you can see in the following mailing list thread:
>
>
>
http://dovecot.markmail.org/message/mjurv4fp4w65u2ib?q=Dovecot+LDA+LDAP+lookups+on+samba4+server+ends+very+often+in+timeouts
>
> The settings within the systems ldap.conf might influence dovecot,
> because libldap (openldap) functions might read the global ldap.conf
> settings.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> Am Tue, 4 Jun 2013 05:50:16 -0400
> schrieb Ron Scott-Adams <ron at tohuw.net>:
>
> > a login tohuw [myPassword] returns "NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED]
> > Authentication failed." I believe I'm missing a configuration
> > detail, but what?
> >
> >
> > info.log: http://pastebin.ca/2388873
> >
> > debug.log: http://pastebin.ca/2388872
> >
> > error.log: http://pastebin.ca/2388871
> >
> > dovecot -n: http://pastebin.ca/2388870
> >
> > dovecot-ldap.conf.ext summary: http://pastebin.ca/2388867
>
>