[Dovecot] dovecot authentication failing

[Pascal Volk]

On 05/14/2011 10:13 PM David Mehler wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm running dovecot 2.0.x on a centos 5.6 machine. This is a new
> installation, I haven't even opened the firewall to it yet. I was
> trying to telnet localhost 143 and 110 trying to authenticate a user.
> I'm getting authentication failure in my maillog but no details.
> Here's the one line I get in my maillog:
> 
> May 14 15:33:42 ohio dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (auth failed,
> 1 attempts): user=<user at example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1,
> lip=127.0.0.1, secured
> 
> Here's a doveconf -n:
> # 2.0.12: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 2.6.38.3-linode32 i686 CentOS release 5.6 (Final) ext3
> auth_default_realm = domain.com
> auth_mechanisms = plain login
> …
> disable_plaintext_auth = no
> …
> passdb {
>   args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users
>   driver = passwd-file
> }
> …
> 
> Here's how I constructed my users file:
> …
> user:{SSHA512}hbLu+pCmhmtyKEwyAs3wv3kvHD/ryr0MoXOAq3VdB7X/g8qIE/xE9BG+eI4jhFk9pTyiCltPCjZxv5/+yK1wll2LNcw=
> :5000:5000::
> …

CRYPT (CRYPT|MD5-CRYPT|SHA256-CRYPT|SHA512-CRYPT) != SSHA512

> I'm suspecting my issue is in my users file or the definition of it in
> passwd-file{ i've been over the wiki for 2.0.x dovecot, this was
> definitely worth the upgrade by the way, and thus far have not found
> an answer.
> 
> I'd appreciate any help.

Whenever something isn't working you should point your browser to:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/WhyDoesItNotWork


Regards,
Pascal
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