Hello list,
i would like to use master user functionality in dovecot v1.2, but i just cant get it to work:
Here’s my configuration:
# dovecot -n # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5PAE i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga) login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid: 200 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_executable(default): /root/dovecot-master-postlogin mail_executable(imap): /root/dovecot-master-postlogin mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 lda: postmaster_address: postmaster@example.com auth default: master_user_separator: * debug: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot.passwd.masterusers pass: yes master: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd
# cat /root/dovecot-master-postlogin #!/bin/bash MASTER_USER=$USER export MASTER_USER exec /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap "$@“
# cat /etc/dovecot.passwd.masterusers masteruser:{PLAIN}Heslo42
Trying login as normal user:
# telnet localhost imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'.
- OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. a1 login jozefkova jozefkova026 a1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH] Logged in
Trying login as master user:
# telnet localhost imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'.
- OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. a1 login jozefkova*masteruser Heslo42 a1 NO [AUTHORIZATIONFAILED] Authorization failed
log sequence of failed auth:
Oct 15 13:04:47 linux dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 lport=143 rport=34618 resp=<hidden> Oct 15 13:04:47 linux dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(masteruser,127.0.0.1,master): lookup: user=masteruser file=/etc/dovecot.passwd.masterusers Oct 15 13:04:47 linux dovecot: auth(default): passdb(masteruser,127.0.0.1,master): Master user logging in as jozefkova Oct 15 13:04:47 linux dovecot: auth-worker(default): pam(jozefkova,127.0.0.1): lookup service=dovecot Oct 15 13:04:47 linux dovecot: auth-worker(default): pam(jozefkova,127.0.0.1): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Oct 15 13:04:49 linux dovecot: auth-worker(default): pam(jozefkova,127.0.0.1): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure (password mismatch?) Oct 15 13:04:51 linux dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=jozefkova authz
So i can see it’s trying to loggin in using pam mech. Is there something i can configure in dovecot userdb or is it something else? I use pam to authenticate my real users…
Thank you in advance…
— Michal Zila