[Dovecot] I can't logon to the mail server using an NIS user account

[Kayode Odeyemi]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Kayode Odeyemi wrote:
> > Below is my configuration
> >
> > passdb {
> >   args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users
> >   driver = passwd-file
> > }
>
> Dovecot isn't using NIS. It's using user accounts in /etc/dovecot/users
> file.
>
> And in any case set auth_debug_passwords=yes to debug authentication.
>
>
Thanks Timo.

The content of /etc/dovecot/users is gotten from:

# ypcat passwd > /etc/dovecot/users

I have also configured multiple password source like this:

# 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.0.0-17-server x86_64 Ubuntu 11.10 nfs4
auth_mechanisms = plain login
disable_plaintext_auth = no
mail_location = maildir:/nfs/users/%u/Maildir
passdb {
  driver = pam
}
passdb {
  driver = passwd
}
passdb {
  args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users
  driver = passwd-file
}
protocols = " imap pop3"
service auth {
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
    group = postfix
    mode = 0660
    user = postfix
  }
}
service imap-login {
  inet_listener imap {
    port = 143
  }
  inet_listener imaps {
    port = 993
    ssl = yes
  }
}
ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mail.prisaltd.local.crt
ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/prisa.key
userdb {
  driver = passwd
}
userdb {
  args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users
  driver = passwd-file
}
protocol imap {
  imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep
  imap_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o
  mail_plugins =
}

No luck yet.

Thanks for helping out.




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