Understanding Auth-Worker Logging

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 27/08/2022 18:28 EEST dovecot at ptld.com wrote:
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> Sometimes when auth-worker gets logged there is an extra 'field' combined with the username and IP inside the sql() section.
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> dovecot[911]: auth-worker(8131): conn unix:auth-worker (pid=3870,uid=97): auth-worker<2>: sql(user at example.com,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx,<8Q4ycCznAPdoiAwp>): Password mismatch (SHA1 of given password: 6ef33886cc5e17a60590cb4badac98d2960b6914)
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> What is the "<8Q4ycCznAPdoiAwp>" and why is it logged only sometimes?
> Is there any documentation explaining what's inside of logs for dovecot?

Hi!

8Q4ycCznAPdoiAwp is session ID. It gets logged so you can grep for it to get all logs for that session.

Aki