Dovecot 2 LDAP "unknown user"

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Wed Nov 2 09:39:06 UTC 2016


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On Tue, 1 Nov 2016, Peter Fraser wrote:

> root at BSD-11:/usr/local/etc/dovecot # doveadm auth test username
> Password:
> passdb: user auth succeeded
> extra fields:
>  user=username
> root at BSD-11:/usr/local/etc/dovecot #
>
> But when I run telnet 127.0.0.1 110 and try to log in it says unknown user.
> Error below in maillog.
> BSD-11 dovecot: pop3: Error: Authenticated user not found from userdb, auth
> lookup id=2262958081 (client-pid=2273 client-id=1)
> Nov  1 15:15:41 BSD-11 dovecot: pop3-login: Internal login failure
> (pid=2273 id=1) (internal failure, 1 successful auths): user=

> passdb {
>  args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext
>  driver = ldap
> }

> userdb {
>  args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext
>  driver = ldap
> }

> #Contents of dovecot-ldap.conf.ext
> hosts = 192.168.153.143
> dn = user at domain.com
> dnpass = password
> auth_bind = yes
> auth_bind_userdn = domain\%u
> ldap_version = 3
> base = dc=domain,dc=com
> pass_filter = (&(objectclass=person)(uid=%u))
> user_attrs = homeDirectory=/home/vmail/%u,uid=1002,gid=1002

duplicate pass_filter to user_filter.

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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