[Dovecot] Unable to Login to Dovecot.

Rajiv Gore rajiv at wsieng.com
Thu Oct 2 11:25:31 EEST 2008


I am unable to login to dovecot . I have edited dovecot.conf as per the Basic 
Configuration.txt in the wiki.I am using Suse 10.2 on I586 and OS is  Linux 
2.6.18.2-34-default i686.
Any help will be appreciated.

Lisiting of Dovecot.conf
Saisuse:~ # dovecot -n
# 1.1.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log
info_log_path: /var/log/info.dovecot
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_greeting: Hi Buddy got Password!.
mail_privileged_group: mail
auth default:
  verbose: yes
  debug: yes
  debug_passwords: yes
  passdb:
    driver: passwd-file
    args: /etc/passwd.dovecot
  userdb:
    driver: passwd
Lisiting of Dovecot.log
dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:52 Error: auth(default): userdb(Rajiv,127.0.0.1): user 
not found from userdb
Lisitng of info.dovecot
dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:26 Info: Dovecot v1.1.3 starting up
dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:26 Info: auth(default): passwd-file /etc/passwd.dovecot: 
Read 1 users
dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:27 Info: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=19922
dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:27 Info: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=19923
dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:27 Info: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=19924
dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:43 Info: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=19930
dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:52 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH   1       PLAIN   
service=imap    secured lip=127.0.0.1   rip=127.0.0.1   lport=143       rport=52353     
resp=AFJhaml2AHBhc3N3b3Jk
dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:52 Info: auth(default): passwd-file(Rajiv,127.0.0.1): 
lookup: user=Rajiv file=/etc/passwd.dovecot
dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:52 Info: auth(default): client out: 
OK    1       user=Rajiv
dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:52 Info: auth(default): master in: 
REQUEST        1       19924   1
dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:52 Info: auth(default): passwd(Rajiv,127.0.0.1): lookup
dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:52 Info: auth(default): passwd(Rajiv,127.0.0.1): unknown 
user
dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:52 Info: auth(default): master out: NOTFOUND      1
dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:52 Info: imap-login: Internal login failure (auth 
failed, 1 attempts): user=<Rajiv>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, 
lip=127.0.0.1, secured
dovecot: Oct 02 12:46:18 Info: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=19976
Thanks 
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Rajiv Gore


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