Hi,

I'm trying to setup Dovecot with MS AD and am using this as my guide:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/ActiveDirectoryNtlm

I can definitely access information on the AD server using wbinfo -g and wbinfo -u.....

Currently my dovecot.conf file looks like this:

# v1.1: #auth_ntlm_use_winbind = yes # v1.2+: auth_use_winbind = yes

auth_winbind_helper_path = /usr/local/bin/ntlm_auth

protocols = imap

# It's nice to have separate log files for Dovecot. You could do this # by changing syslog configuration also, but this is easier. log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info.log

# Disable SSL for now. ssl = no disable_plaintext_auth = no

# We're using Maildir format #mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_location = mbox:/mail:INBOX=/mail/%u

# If you're using POP3, you'll need this: #pop3_uidl_format = %g

# Authentication configuration: auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_username_format = %n auth_mechanisms = plain ntlm login userdb { driver = static args = uid=501 gid=501 home=/mail/%u driver = static allow_all_users=yes }

According to the documentation I should be using:

userdb static { ... }

which seems to be Dovecot v1. config, and additionally the "allow_all_users=yes" statement when added seems again v1. config since Dovecot 2. won't even start?

In the meantime when not using "allow_all_users" Dovecot throws up these errors:

Jun 20 11:30:40 master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=4149 uid=0 code=kill) Jun 20 11:30:48 auth: Fatal: No passdbs specified in configuration file. LOGIN mechanism needs one Jun 20 11:30:48 master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling for 2 secs Jun 20 11:30:59 master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=4182 uid=0 code=kill) Jun 20 11:31:13 auth: Fatal: No passdbs specified in configuration file. LOGIN mechanism needs one Jun 20 11:31:13 master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling for 2 secs Jun 20 11:32:38 master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=4245 uid=0 code=kill) Jun 20 11:32:58 imap-login: Warning: Auth connection closed with 1 pending requests (max 0 secs, pid=4265, EOF) Jun 20 11:32:58 auth: Fatal: master: service(auth): child 4266 killed with signal 11 (core not dumped - set service auth { drop_priv_before_exec=yes })

-- this was after adding:

passdb { driver = static }

to the mix.

I'm using Dovecot 2.1.3 on FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE x64.

Can anyone help me configuring Dovecot to authenticate?

Regards,

Kaya