Here is what worked:
password_query =
SELECT username AS USER,
IF(password IS NULL OR password='', CONCAT('{PLAIN}',clearpwd),
PASSWORD) AS password,
'/var/vmail/%d/%n' as userdb_home,
'maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n' as userdb_mail, 150 as userdb_uid, 8
as userdb_gid
FROM mailbox
WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1'
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING as per an earlier post: you MUST have field called "password" when using password_query, but under WHERE you may show what the "password" field is called, for example:
WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' AND cryptpwd = password ('%w')
ALSO NOTE my original post was about following a dovecot wiki, I was told by Gedalya to do the above, now that I "understand" that "password_query" I will move on with the rest of the solution he gave me.
You have a good day now, en mag jou môre ook so wees,
Carl A Jeptha
On 2016-05-03 10:26, Gedalya wrote:
Oh, you uppercased PASSWORD again.
Change:
IF(cryptpwd IS NULL OR cryptpwd=' ', CONCAT('{PLAIN}',clearpwd), cryptpwd) AS PASSWORD
To:
IF(cryptpwd IS NULL OR cryptpwd=' ', CONCAT('{PLAIN}',clearpwd), cryptpwd) AS password
and again, try to understand what's going on here.
On 05/03/2016 08:08 AM, Carl Jeptha wrote:
- Auth debug turned on, - nothing
- cryptpwd is the name of my "password" column, have to specify that if you want to run password_query as it relies on a field "password" to work.
- I have access to the "clear passwords" but none of my google searches worked for converting them to SHA512_CRYPT
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Steffen Kaiser < skdovecot@smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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On Tue, 3 May 2016, Carl Jeptha wrote:
OK QUERY is WORKING ("password_query" relies on having a field/column
"password', hence the addition under WHERE): password_query =
SELECT username AS USER,
IF(cryptpwd IS NULL OR cryptpwd=' ', CONCAT('{PLAIN}',clearpwd), cryptpwd) AS PASSWORD,
'/var/vmail/%d/%n' as userdb_home,
'maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n' as userdb_mail, 150 as userdb_uid, 8 as userdb_gid
FROM mailbox
WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' AND cryptpwd = password ('%w')But still no happy dance, we now have a new error:
dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 3 attempts in 15 secs): user=user@domain.tld, method=PLAIN, rip=165.255.109.89, lip=10.0.0.12, TLS, session=
1st) You should also enable auth debugging.
2nd) You are poking in the dark with SQL without understanding it,
WHERE ... cryptpwd = password ('%w')
????
3rd) I had the impression that you want to upgrade lower hashed passwords into stronger hashed ones with a specific scheme and that you therefore need to authentificate against two columns, but update the strong hashes from the entered plain text password if missing.
If you already have access to the clear/text passwords, hash them, put the hashes into the database and be fine. No need for different columns and a post login script.
Otherwise: Nobody answered this particular question. And I see no evidance, that Dovecot passes an environment variable named PLAIN_PASSWORD along. I've read the Wiki, but I see nothing like that in the code. Did you've verified that the post login script gets the plain password?
If you have hashed passwords, CONCAT('{PLAIN}',clearpwd) is nonsense.
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Carl Jeptha cajeptha@gmail.com wrote:
Here is what is in phpmyadmin:
password_query = SELECT username as user, SELECT IF( cryptpwd IS NULL OR cryptpwd = '', CONCAT('{PLAIN}', clearpwd), cryptpwd ) as password, '/var/vmail/%d/%n' as userdb_home, 'maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n' as userdb_mail, 150 as userdb_uid, 8 as userdb_gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1'
and the error now: #1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'password_query = SELECT username as user, SELECT IF( cryptpwd IS NULL ' at line 1
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Gedalya gedalya@gedalya.net wrote:
On 05/02/2016 05:32 AM, Carl Jeptha wrote:
> May 2 05:26:03 |****** dovecot: auth-worker(3442): Error: > sql(user@domain.tld,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): Password query must return a > field named 'password' > I'm not sure, maybe it's checking case-sensitive. Your query returns PASSWORD. Make it lowercase.
> For testing purposes I put the query in PHPMyAdmin and it complains > this > (notice it drops "PASSWORD", but shows it in the query: > #1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that > corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use > near '\
> IF(cryptpwd IS NULL OR cryptpwd='', CONCAT('{PLAIN}',clearpwd), > cryptpwd) as ' at line 1 > > > It also sarts with a \ ... did you leave that in? That is specific to the dovecot config file. In PHPMyAdmin you should remove the line-continuation backslashes.
Actually if you use the mysql command-line client, you would be able to paste that in with the backlashes.
Make sure to put in a real value in WHERE username = '%u' <<<
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