On Mon, 12 Aug 2013, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 12.8.2013, at 22.11, dave@661.org wrote:
I'm positive I did everything right to get Dovecot to take usernames and passwords from /etc/dovecot/users, but it still goes for /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. The format of /etc/dovecot/users is "alice:{PLAIN}plaintextpassword" Here's my "doveconf -n":
What does Dovecot log when you're logging in?
2013-08-12T20:26:44.914861+00:00 papasmurf postfix/smtpd[14219]: connect from ip6-localhost[::1] Aug 12 20:26:44 papasmurf postfix/smtpd[14219]: connect from ip6-localhost[::1] 2013-08-12T20:27:01.880523+00:00 papasmurf postfix/smtpd[14219]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed 2013-08-12T20:27:01.880538+00:00 papasmurf postfix/smtpd[14219]: warning: ip6-localhost[::1]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: authentication failure Aug 12 20:27:01 papasmurf postfix/smtpd[14219]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed Aug 12 20:27:01 papasmurf postfix/smtpd[14219]: warning: ip6-localhost[::1]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: authentication failure
Commands used were "EHLO localhost" and "AUTH PLAIN <base64 stuff>
-- David Griffith dave@661.org