Hi all,

I found Dag Wieers' Fedora Core 2 rpm on http://dag.wieers.com/packages/dovecot/ and installed it. Now dovecot-auth isn't complaining anymore about an unknown userdb type but I can't get authentication working.

/etc/dovecot.conf (...) # Authentication process name. auth = default # plain digest-md5 anonymous auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_userdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes (...)

/etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf connect = host=localhost dbname=xams-dovecot user=dovecot password=hallo default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE username = '%u'

If I try to login over imap (no ssl) with Mozilla Mail, authentification will always fail (username: felix@schwarz-online.org, password: "hallo").

/var/log/syslog Jul 22 15:48:47 steinchen postgres[2057]: [30-1] DEBUG: forked new backend, pid=2198 socket=10 Jul 22 15:48:47 steinchen postgres[2198]: [31-1] DEBUG: Passwortpaket erhalten Jul 22 15:48:47 steinchen postgres[2198]: [32-1] LOG: Verbindung authorisiert: Benutzer=dovecot Datenbank=xams-dovecot (...) Jul 22 15:51:15 steinchen dovecot(pam_unix)[2210]: check pass; user unknown Jul 22 15:51:15 steinchen dovecot(pam_unix)[2210]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=

/var/log/dovecot.log dovecot: Jul 22 15:48:46 Info: Dovecot starting up dovecot-auth: Jul 22 15:51:18 Info: PAM: pam_authenticate(felix@schwarz-online.org) failed: Authentication failure

$ psql -d xams-dovecot dovecot xams-dovecot-> SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = 'felix@schwarz-online.org'; password

hallo

xams-dovecot=> SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE username = 'felix@schwarz-online.org'; home | uid | gid ----------+-----+----- /home/fs | 500 | 500

What is wrong? Password encryption? Is there a possibility to see what dovecot gets from Mozilla and what are the expected results of the sql queries? I am stuck as I don't know exactely why authentification failes...

thanks for your help

Felix