[Dovecot] smtp -auth with using clear text password

[Agnello George]

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Agnello George <agnello.dsouza at gmail.com>wrote:

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>> You need to configure Postfix to use dovecot as SASL provider. There are
>> some Howto's in the wiki.
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>> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/**HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL<http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL>
>> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/**HowTo/**VirtualUserFlatFilesPostfix<http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/VirtualUserFlatFilesPostfix>
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>> If you cannot solve it with this please provide dovecot -n, postfix -n
>> and logs with auth_debug=yes.
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> I had followed the documentation as per . however in the  i get the
> following error .
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> [root at test /]# telnet 192.168.77.36 110
> Trying 192.168.77.36...
> Connected to mail.server.co.in (192.168.77.36).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK Dovecot ready.
> user agnello
> +OK
> pass 123456
> Connection closed by foreign host.
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> in the maillog i get the following error :
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> May  5 11:30:43 mail dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts):
> rip=192.168.70.12, lip=192.168.77.36
> May  5 11:30:55 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<agnello>,
> method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.70.12, lip=192.168.77.36, mpid=30400
> May  5 11:30:55 mail dovecot: pop3(agnello): Error: user agnello: Couldn't
> drop privileges: User is missing UID (see mail_uid setting)
> May  5 11:30:55 mail dovecot: pop3(agnello): Error: Internal error
> occurred. Refer to server log for more information.
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> my confi file details is as follows :
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> cat  /etc/dovecot/passwd
> agnello:{plain}123456
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> [root at mail ~]# cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final)
> auth_verbose = yes
> disable_plaintext_auth = no
> passdb {
>   args = scheme=plain /etc/dovecot/passwd
>   driver = passwd-file
> }
> protocols = imap pop3
> service auth {
>   unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
>     group = postfix
>     mode = 0660
>     user = postfix
>   }
> }
> ssl = no
> userdb {
>   driver = static
> }
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> [root at mail ~]# cat /etc/postfix/main.cf
> alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
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> these are my configuration files ..
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> Can someone help me here
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> thanks :)
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> Regards
> Agnello D'souza
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Ok am sorry was not testing it correctly .

Form a remote server i tested the same smtp-auth test


[root at test /]# perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print
encode_base64("\000agnello\000123456")'
AGFnbmVsbG8AMTIzNDU2
[root at test /]# telnet 192.168.77.36 25
Trying 192.168.77.36...
Connected to mail.ddde.co.in (192.168.77.36).
Escape character is '^]'.

220 mail.ddde.co.in ESMTP Postfix
500 5.5.2 Error: bad syntax
ehlo testing
250-mail.ddde.co.in
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-AUTH PLAIN
250-AUTH=PLAIN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN
AUTH PLAIN AGFnbmVsbG8AMTIzNDU2
235 2.7.0 Authentication successful
421 4.4.2 mail.ddde.co.in Error: timeout exceeded
Connection closed by foreign host.

-- 
Regards
Agnello D'souza