On 09/30/2011 12:59 PM, Eric Shubert wrote:
On 09/30/2011 09:07 AM, Eric Shubert wrote:
CRAM-MD5 works sometimes: Sep 30 08:15:43 imap-login: Info: Login: user=userA@domain.com, method=CRAM-MD5, rip=192.168.252.8, lip=192.168.252.14, mpid=20301
but (seemingly more frequently) the authentication fails: Sep 30 08:16:41 imap-login: Info: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=userA@domain.com, method=CRAM-MD5, rip=192.168.252.8, lip=192.168.252.14
I restarted dovecot, and that apparently cleared the problem for one user, but not others.
Is this perhaps a bug in dovecot, or would the problem lie with vpopmail?
TIA for any pointers.
FWIW, I tried digest-md5, and experience the same problem.
Is it possible that passwords are being cached in such a way that different login mechanisms cannot be used by different client programs with the same user account?
My problem was indeed with the password caching. I changed cache_key=%u to cache_key=%u%r and that cleared things up.
I expect that this is only a problem when different client programs use different login mechanisms, which was the case with this particular group of users.
I didn't anticipate this behavior, but can live with it. A note about this in the documentation would be nice. I tried to create an account on the wiki for myself to update it, but that doesn't seem to be working presently.
-- -Eric 'shubes'