On 03/31/2010 02:59 PM, Daniel Gomes wrote:
Dear list members,
I am having some problems with a LDAP passdb authentication on Dovecot. Before I forget, the specs: it's a Ubuntu 7.10 server running Dovecot 1.0.5 connecting to 2 different machines running LDAP servers: gold with OpenLDAP 2.4.19 and extra with OpenLDAP 2.4.9 (extra is a replication slave of gold).
The initial setup of dovecot was with a MySQL passdb, which is still the first passdb, now followed by my new LDAP passdb, all with a static userdb.
Here is my dovecot-ldap.conf (the LDAP passdb) (I switched the domain with example.com for privacy sake):
#Servidor hosts = gold.example.com extra.example.com tls = yes ldap_version = 3 base = ou=people,dc=example,dc=com scope = onelevel
#uid/gid user_global_uid = 5000 user_global_gid = 5000
#Bind para ler coisas dn = cn=dovecot,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com dnpass = secret sasl_bind = no sasl_mech =
#passdb: usar password lookups para autenticar utilizadores auth_bind = no pass_attrs = userPassword=password #, =userdb_home=/home/vmail/%d/%n pass_filter = (&(maildrop=%u)(mailacceptinguser=1))
default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5
This setup is currently working for some tests users (the others are still being auth'ed with the old MySQL passdb).
Unfortunately, I seemed to have run into a big problem on an occasion when dovecot was unable to connect my first server (gold) and hence went to the second one (extra). Backtracking from the logs (starting with dovecot-error.log):
Mar 31 13:11:50 bunker dovecot: auth(default): LDAP: ldap_result() failed: Can't contact LDAP server Mar 31 13:11:50 bunker dovecot: auth-worker(default): LDAP: ldap_result() failed: Can't contact LDAP server
This is when the users stopped being able to login via imap, with the following message being shown on dovecot-info.log:
Mar 31 13:13:00 bunker dovecot: auth(default): ldap(user@domain.com,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): unknown user
(I know, an auth_debug log would be handy here, but it wasn't activated at the time). I went on to investigate and from the slapd logs I noticed that the second LDAP server (extra) was being contacted for the passdb lookups, thus proving that dovecot considered the gold to be dead (it wasn't, but that's a different matter). Anyway, the problem is that dovecot doesn't seem to be able to retrieve the user information from extra. As the slapd log shows:
Mar 31 13:41:37 extra slapd[31473]: conn=4 op=140 SRCH base="ou=people,dc=example,dc=com" scope=1 deref=0 filter="(&(?=undefined)(?=undefined))" Mar 31 13:41:37 extra slapd[31473]: conn=4 op=140 SRCH attr=userPassword Mar 31 13:41:37 extra slapd[31473]: conn=4 op=140 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text=
For some reason, dovecot sends an undefined filter to extra, even though the same filter works without issues with gold (and remember they are "clones"). I just can't see how this is caused by any of my configurations!
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Hi Daniel,
Are you using by any chance the slapo-rwm overlay? There is mention in openldap 2.4.13 changelog that prior versions would rewrite an undefined filter.
Have you tried issuing the exact search on both servers, using ldapseach for instance, and see if they both return the same information?
Regards,
Hugo Monteiro.
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