[Dovecot] in a major jam... authentication

[Tom Allison]

tallison1 wrote:
> I was upgrading my debian box and managed to upgrade my dovecot 
> installation at the same time.  I wasn't planning on it, but it came 
> along just the same.
> 
> I took some notes on what I thought I needed to change, but apparently 
> it wasn't enough.
> 
> I've been running this for quite some time now with pgsql authentication 
> and it's been one of those nice applications that always behave themselves.
> 
> Until now.

I've checked again and the encrypted strings match on both parts of the 
logging (big_ugly_string).  So it's not really a password mismatch... 
At least not according to the logs.

dovecot: 2006-01-16 15:09:18 Warning: Killed with signal 15
dovecot: 2006-01-16 15:09:19 Info: Dovecot v1.0.alpha5 starting up
dovecot: 2006-01-16 15:09:20 Info: auth(default): pgsql: Connected to dbmail
dovecot: 2006-01-16 15:09:41 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 
1       PLAIN   service=IMAP    lip=192.168.0.5    rip=192.168.1.200
dovecot: 2006-01-16 15:09:41 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 
1
dovecot: 2006-01-16 15:09:41 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT 
1       big_ugly_string
dovecot: 2006-01-16 15:09:43 Info: auth(default): 
pam(tallison,192.168.1.200): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication 
failure
dovecot: 2006-01-16 15:09:43 Info: auth(default): 
sql(tallison,192.168.1.200): query: SELECT passwd AS password FROM users 
WHERE userid = 'tallison'
dovecot: 2006-01-16 15:09:43 Info: auth(default): 
sql(tallison,192.168.1.200): Password mismatch
dovecot: 2006-01-16 15:09:45 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 
1       user=tallison
dovecot: 2006-01-16 15:09:45 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 
2       PLAIN   service=IMAP    lip=192.168.0.5    rip=192.168.1.200 
    resp=big_ugly_string
dovecot: 2006-01-16 15:09:47 Info: auth(default): 
pam(tallison,192.168.1.200): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication 
failure
dovecot: 2006-01-16 15:09:47 Info: auth(default): 
sql(tallison,192.168.1.200): query: SELECT passwd AS password FROM users 
WHERE userid = 'tallison'
dovecot: 2006-01-16 15:09:47 Info: auth(default): 
sql(tallison,192.168.1.200): Password mismatch
dovecot: 2006-01-16 15:09:49 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 
2       user=tallison
dovecot: 2006-01-16 15:09:53 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: 
user=<tallison>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.200, lip=192.168.0.5