Dovecot auth-worker error after cram-md5 auth

[Aki Tuomi]

On 31.01.2017 09:06, Poliman - Serwis wrote:
> I set up cram-md5 using this tutorial
> https://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/CRAM-MD5 in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf in
> passdb code block:
> listen = *,[::]
> protocols = imap pop3
> #auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5
> auth_mechanisms = cram-md5 plain login
> #dodana nizej linia
> ssl = required
> disable_plaintext_auth = yes
> log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S "
> mail_privileged_group = vmail
> postmaster_address = postmaster at vps342401.ovh.net
> ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/smtpd.cert
> ssl_key = </etc/postfix/smtpd.key
> ssl_protocols = !SSLv2 !SSLv3 !TLSv1 !TLSv1.1
> ssl_cipher_list =
> ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384[image:
> :D]HE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256[image: :D]HE-DSS-AES$
> ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes
> ssl_dh_parameters_length = 2048
>
>
> mail_max_userip_connections = 100
> passdb {
> # args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
> # driver = sql
> driver = passwd-file
> args = scheme=cram-md5 /etc/dovecot/cram-md5.pwd
> }
> userdb {
> driver = prefetch
> }
> userdb {
> args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
> driver = sql
> }
> Of course I created cram-md5.pwd file. All mails go out and come nicely.
> But after I want to do default settings by commented out these two lines:
> driver = passwd-file
> args = scheme=cram-md5 /etc/dovecot/cram-md5.pwd
> and uncomment
> # args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
> # driver = sql
> I can't send emails - I use Thunderbird - get error "logging on server
> mail.example.com not work out". Error in logs:
> dovecot: auth-worker(22698): Error: Auth worker sees different
> passdbs/userdbs than auth server.
> dovecot: auth: Error: read(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: EOF
>
> Is it possible that hashed password from cram-md5.pwd file was written to
> database (if yes then where - I have ISPconfig)? I wasn't change any userdb
> {} block and this second userdb block has this same lines like default
> settings in passdb block.
>
Try

auth_debug=yes
auth_verbose=yes

and see if it gives any more reasonable messages.

Aki