[Dovecot] plain text auth

[ohp at pyrenet.fr]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Chris Wakelin wrote:

> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:08:40 +0000
> From: Chris Wakelin <c.d.wakelin at reading.ac.uk>
> To: ohp at pyrenet.fr
> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] plain text auth
>
> ohp at pyrenet.fr wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Chris Wakelin wrote:
> >
> >> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:56:50 +0000
> >> From: Chris Wakelin <c.d.wakelin at reading.ac.uk>
> >> To: ohp at pyrenet.fr
> >> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] plain text auth
> >>
> >> ohp at pyrenet.fr wrote:
> >>> Hi everyone,
> >>>
> >>> This is my second try with dovecot, and still no luck.
> >>> What I want is twig to work with dovecot on the localhost address .
> >>>
> >>> I need to authenticate through pam for real accounts and through pgsql for
> >>> virtual ones.
> >>>
> >>> I just cant autenticate:
> >>> logs are : imap-:login: Authenticate PLAIN failed: Unsupported
> >>> authentication  mechanism
> >>> or: Aborted login: method = PLAIN
> >>>
> >>> Could someone please share a working config file that does what I want?
> >>> I'm struggling for weeks now both on tyhe alpha5 and beta1 versions.
> >>>
> >>> TIA
> >>>
> >> What do you get if you "telnet localhost 143" then type ". CAPABILITY"
> >> (then ". LOGOUT")? Does it include "AUTH=PLAIN"?
> > No
> >> What do you have for
> >> "mechanisms" and "disable_plaintext_auth"?
> >>
> > I don't have mechanisms, I have auth_mechanisms to plain
> > and disable_plaintext_auth is no
> >> Best Wishes,
> >> Chris
> >>
> >>
> >
>
> "auth_mechanisms" is old syntax I think. Are you sure you're using
> 1.0-alpha5 or beta1?
>
> >From dovecot-example.conf :-
>
> auth default {
>   # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms:
>   #   plain digest-md5 cram-md5 apop anonymous gssapi
>   mechanisms = plain
Yes I have that
What pam.d does it look at (although, looking at the logs it doesn't even
go to pam)
> ...
> }
>
> Best Wishes,
> Chris
>
>

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