[Dovecot] Logging IP address for failed login

Jack Bates jbates at brightok.net
Tue Oct 2 00:15:54 EEST 2012


On 10/1/2012 3:36 PM, Scott Neville wrote:
>
> In /var/log/maillog I get lines like this:
> Oct  1 04:19:12 olive dovecot: auth: pam(marketing): unknown user
> Oct  1 04:19:17 olive dovecot: auth: pam(marketing): unknown user
>

I'm guessing you are using a centos package. This may be package version 
specific.

Here is RHEL6's dovecot 2.0.9 default except for setting auth_verbose = yes.

Sep 28 21:12:10 compiler dovecot: auth: pam(test,::1): unknown user
Sep 28 21:12:24 compiler dovecot: auth: pam(validuser,::1): 
pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure (password mismatch?)

2.1.9/2.1.10 which I packaged shows similar.

Since I connected localhost, the IP is IPv6, of course.

Jack



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