On 17/02/2023 23:16 EET Jeff Rogers <dvrsn@diphi.com> wrote:

 

 

Hi all,

 

I recently discovered a configuration issue on my system where a system

user account had a blank rather than invalid or disabled password in the

passwd/shadow database.   The user could not be logged into through

login/telnet/ssh because it was marked as a system account (uid < 100). 

Dovecot also would not authenticate the user for the same reason. 

However, I'm using exim using dovecot_login for authentication, and that

would authenticate the user with a blank and allow me to be used as an

open relay.

 

This is clearly a config issue on my part (since fixed), but should

dovecot_login guard against blank passwords or system users just as a

normal login does?

 

I'm running dovecot 2.2.36 (1f10bfa63)

Exim version 4.96

 

I don't know which software supplies the dovecot_login connenector.

 

The SMTP session would include

 

AUTH LOGIN

334 VXNlcm5hbWU6

cG9zdGZpeA==

334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6

             <--  nothing, just a return here

235 Authentication succeeded

DONE

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Aki