Problem logging in during testing

[Alex JOST]

Am 15.06.2015 um 15:19 schrieb Steve Matzura:
> Instructions at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/BasicConfiguration say the
> next thing to test after getting IMAP and Telnet working is to create
> a dummy user file with the following command:
>
> echo "$USER:{PLAIN}password:$UID:$GID::$HOME" > users
>
> And place it in /etc/dovecot and protect it appropriately. It was also
> edited to change the plain-text password from `password' to what it
> really is.
>
> The next section describes changes to 10-auth.conf and other things:
>
> If you used the example configuration files, switch to passwd-file by
> modifying conf.d/10-auth.conf:
>
> # Add '#' to comment out the system user login for now:
> #!include auth-system.conf.ext
> # Remove '#' to use passwd-file:
> !include auth-passwdfile.conf.ext
>
> In conf.d/auth-passwdfile.conf.ext you should have:
>
> passdb {
>    driver = passwd-file
>    args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users
> }
> userdb {
>    driver = passwd-file
>    args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users
> }
>
> Verify with doveconf -n passdb userdb that the output looks like above
> (and there are no other passdbs or userdbs).
>
> All done successfully.
>
> Now, when I telnet 127.0.0.1 143 and attempt to log in with the
> string:
>
> a login <any username> <any password>
>
> whether it's one in my users file or not, I get:
>
> a NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed.
>

Logs might give you a clue what exactly doesn't work.

-- 
Alex JOST