[Dovecot] Stuck with authentication for my dovecot installation.

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Tru Pheenix wrote:

>> Nov  2 19:53:41 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: sql(someone at mydomain.com,127.0.0.1): query: SELECT userid as user, password FROM users WHERE userid = 'someone at mydomain.com'
>> Nov  2 19:53:41 localhost dovecot: auth: sql(someone at mydomain.com,127.0.0.1): Password mismatch

Where is the line about PAM?

>> auth_verbose = yes
>> passdb {
>>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
>>   driver = sql
>> }

So, the password storred in the database does not match the enterred one, 
then the next passdb {} should be tried

>> passdb {
>>   driver = pam
>> }

did you enabled dovecot in PAM? Or is a suitable default in PAM 
configured?

>> userdb {
>>   driver = passwd
>> }

Just the userdb {} for passwd, no SQL?

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Steffen Kaiser
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