[Dovecot] Cannot Authenticate via LDAP

[Christian Wiese]

Hi Ron,

I didn't had the time to check all logs but the error log.
First thing you should check if there are LDAP REFFERALS enabled in the
systems ldap.conf.
I had a similar looking issue and it took me a good amount of time to
figure out that I had to disable LDAP REFFERALS globally.
This happened when using an AD as LDAP backend, but also applies to
Samba4 as you can see in the following mailing list thread:

http://dovecot.markmail.org/message/mjurv4fp4w65u2ib?q=Dovecot+LDA+LDAP+lookups+on+samba4+server+ends+very+often+in+timeouts

The settings within the systems ldap.conf might influence dovecot,
because libldap (openldap) functions might read the global ldap.conf
settings.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Chris

Am Tue, 4 Jun 2013 05:50:16 -0400
schrieb Ron Scott-Adams <ron at tohuw.net>:

> a login tohuw [myPassword] returns "NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED]
> Authentication failed." I believe I'm missing a configuration detail,
> but what?
> 
> 
> info.log: http://pastebin.ca/2388873
> 
> debug.log: http://pastebin.ca/2388872
> 
> error.log: http://pastebin.ca/2388871
> 
> dovecot -n: http://pastebin.ca/2388870
> 
> dovecot-ldap.conf.ext summary: http://pastebin.ca/2388867