[Dovecot] Odd Error: Expecting '='
Patrick Rutkowski
rutski89 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 20 04:38:23 UTC 2006
Ahh, apparently disable_plaintext_auth was set to 'yes' by default. I
set it to "no" and now it works :-)
On Dec 19, 2006, at 11:37 PM, Patrick Rutkowski wrote:
> Ok, so now I have 1.0 running. That error I had before went away,
> but now I have a new error. When I do "USER user at foo.org" over a
> telnet to dovecot on my test server I get "-ERR Plaintext
> authentication disabled." as a response. This is puzzling because
> in dovecot-sql.conf I have "default_pass_scheme = PLAIN" and in
> dovecot.conf in the auth default {} section I have "mechanisms =
> plain"
>
> I wrote the configs from scratch this time, so they are very short;
> there they are in their entirety:
>
> === dovecot.conf ===
>
> ssl_disable = yes
>
> protocols = pop3 pop3s
>
> default_mail_env = maildir:~/
>
> auth default {
> mechanisms = plain login
>
> passdb sql {
> args = /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql.conf
> }
> userdb sql {
> args = /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql.conf
> }
> }
>
> === dovecot-sql.conf ===
>
> driver = pgsql
> connect = host=localhost dbname=mails user=mailreader
> password=secret
> default_pass_scheme = PLAIN
> password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE userid = '%u'
> user_query = SELECT '/home/'||home AS home, uid, gid FROM
> users WHERE userid = '%u'
>
>
> On Dec 19, 2006, at 10:48 PM, Patrick Rutkowski wrote:
>
>> Shoot, I'm using 0.99.14. I should have known Debian was a version
>> behind (it always is). I'll compile 1.0 by hand and give it a
>> shot, I hear the configs go by different rules in 1.0. Thanks for
>> alerting me about the version.
>>
>> I'll let you know how it goes with 1.0,
>> Patrick
>>
>> On Dec 19, 2006, at 10:11 PM, Curtis Maloney wrote:
>>
>>> Patrick Rutkowski wrote:
>>>> Any clues would be much appreciated,
>>>
>>> A clue to which version of Dovecot you're using would also be
>>> welcomed...
>>>
>>> --
>>> Curtis Maloney
>>> cmaloney at cardgate.net
>>>
>>
>
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