[Dovecot] auth problem with dovecot-1.0.beta5
Hey folks,
Let me start by saying I really love what I see so far! Dovecot seems to be extremely feature-rich, and unlike a lot of free software the documentation is extremely good! I gave up on courier IMAP because of the poor documentation, and I have to say Dovecot sure differentiates itself in that area!
Unfortunately I still can't get it going :-/
First thing I noticed is that --with-shadow does not appear to be working on my FreeBSD 6.0 system. Here is what I built with :
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared --enable-static --disable-ipv6 --with-ioloop =poll --with-passwd --with-shadow --with-pam --with-passwd-file --without-checkpassword --wit hout-bsdauth --without-gssapi --without-ldap --with-static-userdb --without-prefetch-userdb --without-sql --without-mysql --without-ssl --with-rundir=/var/run/dovecot --with-storages=mb ox --without-sql-drivers
However :
root@heimat# dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=poll Passdb: checkpassword pam passwd passwd-file vpopmail Userdb: checkpassword passwd passwd-file static vpopmail
And when I try to include the shadow options in the config file I get this in the log file :
Apr 8 17:07:38 heimat dovecot: auth(default): Unknown passdb driver 'shadow' (typo, or Dovecot was built without support for it? Check with dovecot --build-options)
No big deal. I've never used PAM, but I'll have a go at it.
My config file looks like this :
base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap listen = 127.0.0.1 ssl_disable = yes first_valid_uid = 1000 last_valid_uid = 2000 first_valid_gid = 1000 last_valid_gid = 2000 default_mail_env = mbox:~/IMAP/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_extra_groups = mail protocol imap { } auth_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890
auth default { mechanisms = plain userdb passwd { } passdb pam { # args = session=yes * args = * } #passdb passwd { #} # /etc/shadow or similiar, using getspnam(). Deprecated by PAM nowadays. #passdb shadow { #} user = root }
And I cannot get my webmail to auth. So I decided to "telnet localhost 143" and try typing the login command like the docs suggest. But here's what I get :
telnet localhost 143 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.dmz.alanmckay.com. Escape character is '^]'.
- OK Dovecot ready. LOGIN amckay XXXXXX LOGIN BAD Error in IMAP command received by server.
Something tells me there is a big problem here :-/
Which brings me to my next question : is there a "latest stable" release? I didn't see anything obvious on the website.
thanks! -Alan
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Alan McKay wrote:
LOGIN amckay XXXXXX LOGIN BAD Error in IMAP command received by server.
Something tells me there is a big problem here :-/
"amckay" is not an IMAP command. Please note that the first token is usually a "command tag", ie. something that should be unique for every command client sends. Also note that you can't supply password with fancy characters as-is. See RFC 3501 for details on both issues.
Cheers. -jkt
-- cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth
"amckay" is not an IMAP command. Please note that the first token is usually a "command tag", ie. something that should be unique for every command client sends. Also note that you can't supply password with fancy characters as-is. See RFC 3501 for details on both issues.
OK, now I'm confused. I'm looking for the wiki page I was following but cannot find it now, but I was sure it said to do
LOGIN <username> <password>
And my password is just letters and numbers
Oh, here it is :
http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation#head-818ede1a60e8fb1900242b966b335b...
Ug, but in looking closer I see a 1 in front, and trying that it works!
So my problem must actually be with my (horde) webmail somewhere.
Thanks, and sorry for the stupid question ...
cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth
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* On 08/04/06 18:13 -0400, Alan McKay wrote: | > "amckay" is not an IMAP command. Please note that the first token is | > usually a "command tag", ie. something that should be unique for every | > command client sends. Also note that you can't supply password with | > fancy characters as-is. See RFC 3501 for details on both issues. | | OK, now I'm confused. I'm looking for the wiki page I was following | but cannot find it now, but I was sure it said to do | | LOGIN <username> <password> 001 LOGIN <username> <password> 002 LOGOUT | And my password is just letters and numbers | | Oh, here it is : | | http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation#head-818ede1a60e8fb1900242b966b335b... | | Ug, but in looking closer I see a 1 in front, and trying that it works! | | So my problem must actually be with my (horde) webmail somewhere. | | Thanks, and sorry for the stupid question ... | | > cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth | | You may enjoy my website : http://www.bodensatz.com :-) | | -- | "True Budo is done for the sake of building peace. Train every day so as to make | peace between this spirit and all things manifested on the face of the Earth" | - Ueshiba Morihei -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken -- there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude. -- Maxwell Bodenheim
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On Saturday 2006-April-08 16:55, Alan McKay wrote:
Unfortunately I still can't get it going :-/
First thing I noticed is that --with-shadow does not appear to be working on my FreeBSD 6.0 system. Here is what I built with :
I don't know why it's building properly, but see also the thread from earlier this week (last week for Mark):
From: Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz> Subject: [Dovecot] plain auth problem with beta4 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 12:50:44 +1200
He posted a followup with a patch. I'm using that successfully for
PLAIN mechanism and shadow passdb (Slackware Linux.)
Which brings me to my next question : is there a "latest stable" release? I didn't see anything obvious on the website.
Uh, yes and no. Beta 5 is probably what you want. The old "stable" 0.99's are much different, and unmaintained at this point. Timo was calling it "alpha" for a long time, until people here pressured him to call it a beta. :)
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"/dev/rob0" or "not-spam" is in Subject: headerOn Saturday 2006-April-08 17:16, I wrote:
First thing I noticed is that --with-shadow does not appear to be working on my FreeBSD 6.0 system. Here is what I built with :
I don't know why it's building properly, but see also the thread from earlier this week (last week for Mark):
Typo and ambiguous. I meant, "why it's *not* building properly". I was able to build --with-shadow (it was the default on Slackware) without Mark's patch, but it didn't work. I'm not sure if that's because I was testing with kmail.
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