Hello everybody,

As explained in the topic, i have troubles with authentication of my users. First of all, sorry for my poor english... I'm running dovecot v1.2.15 on a Debian 6 64bits server up to date. My users database is an Active Directory 2003 (it's important to know that because Active Directory can't retrieve users passwords, you have to bind LDAP with a domain administrator). So, i'm using userdb ldap for authenticated my users and it works ! BUT... When an user having a password with special characters like " ² ° § µ à é è ç à â ê î ô û ù ä ë ï ö ü ", authentication does not work. And in my log file : MY_SERVER | mail/info | dovecot | 2012/08/27 10:42:14 | auth(default): cache(my_user,192.168.7.127): plain(RU0975é*) != 'RU0975é*' As you can see, the character é has been replaced by é.

My dovecot.conf : protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve shutdown_clients = yes

protocol imap { listen = 192.168.7.1:143 ssl_listen = 192.168.7.1:993 mail_plugins = quota imap_quota autocreate imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep } protocol pop3 { listen = 192.168.7.1:110 ssl_listen = 192.168.7.1:995 mail_plugins = quota pop3_no_flag_updates = no pop3_reuse_xuidl = no pop3_lock_session = no pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } protocol managesieve { listen = 192.168.7.1:4190 login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve managesieve_implementation_string = dovecot } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve quota postmaster_address = postmaster@contoso.fr hostname = webmail.contoso.fr sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail quota_full_tempfail = no auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master }

log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " syslog_facility = mail mail_debug = no auth_debug = no auth_debug_passwords = no

ssl = required ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/webmail.contoso.fr.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/webmail.contoso.fr.key ssl_ca_file = /etc/ssl/certs/VERYSIGN.pem ssl_verify_client_cert = no

mail_location = maildir:%h mail_full_filesystem_access = no

mail_uid = 500 mail_gid = 8 mail_privileged_group = mail first_valid_uid = 500 last_valid_uid = 500 first_valid_gid = 8 last_valid_gid = 8

login_greeting = Webmail CONTOSO login_process_size = 256 login_process_per_connection = no login_processes_count = 2 login_max_processes_count = 128 login_max_connections = 512

max_mail_processes = 1024 mail_process_size = 256 mail_max_keyword_length = 50

disable_plaintext_auth = yes auth_failure_delay = 2 auth_process_size = 256 auth_username_format = %Lu

auth default { mechanisms = plain login auth_cache_size = 2048

passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } user = vmail count = 1

socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 user = vmail group = mail } client { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode = 0666 user = vmail group = mail } } }

dict { }

plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_warning = bytes=80%% /usr/lib/dovecot/quota-warning 80 quota_warning2 = bytes=95%% /usr/lib/dovecot/quota-warning 95 quota_warning3 = bytes=99%% /usr/lib/dovecot/quota-warning 99

sieve=dovecot.sieve sieve_dir=~/.Sieve sieve_extensions=+imapflags

autocreate = Spam autocreate2 = Trash autosubscribe = Spam autosubscribe2 = Trash autosubscribe3 = Sent autosubscribe4 = Drafts }

And my dovecot-ldap.conf : # My domain controller uris = ldap://192.168.1.1:3268 dn = CN=ServerOperator,CN=Users,DC=contoso,DC=fr dnpass = MyPassword debug_level = 0 auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = CN=Users,DC=contoso,DC=fr deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = mailDirectory=home=/var/spool/mail/%$,mailQuota=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$,=quota_rule2=Trash:storage=100%% user_filter = (&(|(sAMAccountName=%n)(mailAcceptingGeneralID=%u)(mail=%u))(!(|(mailDrop="*|*")(mailDrop="*:*")(mailDrop="*/*")(userParams=noMail)))) pass_filter = (&(sAMAccountName=%n)(!(|(mailDrop="*|*")(mailDrop="*:*")(mailDrop="*/*")(userParams=noMail)))) default_pass_scheme = CRYPT

Does anyone else have this problem? If yes, how to solve? Thank you in advance.