Instructions at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/BasicConfiguration say the
next thing to test after getting IMAP and Telnet working is to create
a dummy user file with the following command:
echo "$USER:{PLAIN}password:$UID:$GID::$HOME" > users
And place it in /etc/dovecot and protect it appropriately. It was also
edited to change the plain-text password from `password' to what it
really is.
The next section describes changes to 10-auth.conf and other things:
If you used the example configuration files, switch to passwd-file by
modifying conf.d/10-auth.conf:
# Add '#' to comment out the system user login for now:
#!include auth-system.conf.ext
# Remove '#' to use passwd-file:
!include auth-passwdfile.conf.ext
In conf.d/auth-passwdfile.conf.ext you should have:
passdb {
driver = passwd-file
args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users
}
userdb {
driver = passwd-file
args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users
}
Verify with doveconf?-n?passdb?userdb that the output looks like above
(and there are no other passdbs or userdbs).
All done successfully.
Now, when I telnet 127.0.0.1 143 and attempt to log in with the
string:
a login <any username> <any password>
whether it's one in my users file or not, I get:
a NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed.
Am 15.06.2015 um 15:19 schrieb Steve Matzura:> Instructions at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/BasicConfiguration say the > next thing to test after getting IMAP and Telnet working is to create > a dummy user file with the following command: > > echo "$USER:{PLAIN}password:$UID:$GID::$HOME" > users > > And place it in /etc/dovecot and protect it appropriately. It was also > edited to change the plain-text password from `password' to what it > really is. > > The next section describes changes to 10-auth.conf and other things: > > If you used the example configuration files, switch to passwd-file by > modifying conf.d/10-auth.conf: > > # Add '#' to comment out the system user login for now: > #!include auth-system.conf.ext > # Remove '#' to use passwd-file: > !include auth-passwdfile.conf.ext > > In conf.d/auth-passwdfile.conf.ext you should have: > > passdb { > driver = passwd-file > args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users > } > userdb { > driver = passwd-file > args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users > } > > Verify with doveconf -n passdb userdb that the output looks like above > (and there are no other passdbs or userdbs). > > All done successfully. > > Now, when I telnet 127.0.0.1 143 and attempt to log in with the > string: > > a login <any username> <any password> > > whether it's one in my users file or not, I get: > > a NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed. >Logs might give you a clue what exactly doesn't work. -- Alex JOST
>> passdb { >> driver = passwd-file >> args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users >> }have you created/generated a password to be used with the crypt scheme? you can use doveadm pw for this. - christian
On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 17:22:13 +0200, you wrote:>> Now, when I telnet 127.0.0.1 143 and attempt to log in with the >> string: >> >> a login <any username> <any password> >> >> whether it's one in my users file or not, I get: >> >> a NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed. >> > >Logs might give you a clue what exactly doesn't work.Found one problem in maillog. mail_uid and mail_gid weren't defined. I didn't define them manually because I thought they defaulted to vmail. Now they are defined that way. These are a mystery: Jun 15 16:45:15 <my-node> dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<admin>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=1428, secured, session=<jBDSLZEYvQB/AAAB> Jun 15 16:45:15 <my-node> dovecot: imap(admin): Error: User initialization failed: Namespace '': Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/admin Jun 15 16:45:15 <my-node> dovecot: imap(admin): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. ~doveadm log find' says everything goes to /var/log/maillog, so that's all I have.