Password Mismatch when connecting from Email Client
Dear All I have Postfix version 3.3.0, Dovecot Version 2.2.33.2 and PostfixAdmin version 3.3.10 using MySQL on a small device running Ubuntu VERSION="18.04.6 LTS (Bionic Beaver)" for my internal LAN Mail.
I have a user mailto:admin@fsoft.nnet with a mailbox setup in PostfixAdmin with a password as 'Test75?'
Everything is running fine, but I cannot get my Email Client Thunderbird to connect.
I have setup the debugging to see that the correct password is being used, which it is, but I have this error:
dovecot: auth-worker(26468): sql(mailto:admin@fsoft.nnet,10.6.10.10,<gB77wjLXGLsKBgoK>): Password mismatch (given password: Test75?)
showing that dovecot disagrees!!!
Why is this? Is it something to do with the permissions in PostfixAdmin?
I did find https://serverfault.com/questions/696715/password-mismatch-in-dovecot-with-p... where someone had the same problem. He just tried various passwords until he found one that worked!!!! I have not found any other post about this exact problem.
Any help much appreciated.
Regards
Francis
The passwords are stored in plaintext in the database?
Already checked
https://github.com/postfixadmin/postfixadmin/blob/master/DOCUMENTS/DOVECOT.t...
Once a dumped to a postfix admin database crypt passwords straight from /etc/shadow without a single issue, that's why I'm asking if the passwords are in plaintext or not.
On 04/02/2022 16:17, Dr Francis Greaves wrote:
Dear All
I have Postfix version 3.3.0, Dovecot Version 2.2.33.2 and PostfixAdmin version 3.3.10 using MySQL on a small device running Ubuntu VERSION="18.04.6 LTS (Bionic Beaver)" for my internal LAN Mail.
I have a user admin@fsoft.nnet with a mailbox setup in PostfixAdmin with a password as 'Test75?'
Everything is running fine, but I cannot get my Email Client Thunderbird to connect.
I have setup the debugging to see that the correct password is being used, which it is, but I have this error:
dovecot: auth-worker(26468): sql(admin@fsoft.nnet,10.6.10.10,<gB77wjLXGLsKBgoK>): Password mismatch (given password: Test75?)showing that dovecot disagrees!!!
Why is this? Is it something to do with the permissions in PostfixAdmin?
I did find a post on Server Fault https://serverfault.com/questions/696715/password-mismatch-in-dovecot-with-p... where someone had the same problem. He just tried various passwords until he found one that worked!!!! I have not found any other post about this exact problem.
Any help much appreciated.
Regards Francis
My dovecot-sql.conf.ext file has this line:
default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT
looking in the postfixadmin database passwords are encrypted
---- On Fri, 04 Feb 2022 16:37:54 +0000 Benny Pedersen me@junc.eu wrote ----
On 2022-02-04 17:17, Dr Francis Greaves wrote:
Any help much appreciated.
what is stored in mysql on the password field ?
you dont need to expose passwords in maillists !!!!
Sorry sent my reply using the wrong Email Address
---- On Fri, 04 Feb 2022 16:37:54 +0000 Benny Pedersen me@junc.eu wrote ----
On 2022-02-04 17:17, Dr Francis Greaves wrote:
Any help much appreciated.
what is stored in mysql on the password field ?
you dont need to expose passwords in maillists !!!!
My dovecot-sql.conf.ext file has this line:
default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT
looking in the postfixadmin database passwords are encrypted
---- On Fri, 04 Feb 2022 16:37:54 +0000 Benny Pedersen me@junc.eu wrote ----
On 2022-02-04 17:17, Dr Francis Greaves wrote:
Any help much appreciated.
what is stored in mysql on the password field ?
you dont need to expose passwords in maillists !!!!
On 04/02/2022 16:51, Francis Greaves wrote:
My dovecot-sql.conf.ext file has this line: default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT looking in the postfixadmin database passwords are encrypted
How? there are several ways to encrypt passwords. If the default_pass_scheme mismatch the way postfixadmin encrypts the passwords the verification will fail.
---- On Fri, 04 Feb 2022 16:37:54 +0000 *Benny Pedersen me@junc.eu* wrote ----
On 2022-02-04 17:17, Dr Francis Greaves wrote: > Any help much appreciated. what is stored in mysql on the password field ? you dont need to expose passwords in maillists !!!!
On 2022-02-04 18:08, João Silva wrote:
On 04/02/2022 16:51, Francis Greaves wrote:
My dovecot-sql.conf.ext file has this line:
default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT
looking in the postfixadmin database passwords are encrypted
How? there are several ways to encrypt passwords. If the default_pass_scheme mismatch the way postfixadmin encrypts the passwords the verification will fail.
and thats why i asked what is in mysql password field
no info no help here
Well my PostfixAdmin is setup like this:
$CONF['encrypt'] = 'md5crypt';
and dovecot default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT
So I would have thought that would match OK.
I have tried a password with just AlphaNumeric characters, no special chars but same error.
---- On Fri, 04 Feb 2022 17:16:05 +0000 Benny Pedersen me@junc.eu wrote ----
On 2022-02-04 18:08, João Silva wrote:
On 04/02/2022 16:51, Francis Greaves wrote:
My dovecot-sql.conf.ext file has this line:
default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT
looking in the postfixadmin database passwords are encrypted
How? there are several ways to encrypt passwords. If the default_pass_scheme mismatch the way postfixadmin encrypts the passwords the verification will fail.
and thats why i asked what is in mysql password field
no info no help here
Am 04.02.2022 um 18:33 schrieb Francis Greaves:
Well my PostfixAdmin is setup like this:
$CONF['encrypt'] = 'md5crypt';
and dovecot default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT
Use
$CONF['encrypt'] = 'dovecot:MD5-CRYPT' $CONF['dovecotpw'] = "/path/to/doveadm pw";
in conf.inc.php of Postfixadmin.
Alexander
Alexander, that has fixed it!!!!!
Many thanks to all who contributed.
Regards
Francis
---- On Fri, 04 Feb 2022 17:58:23 +0000 Alexander Dalloz ad+lists@uni-x.org wrote ----
Am 04.02.2022 um 18:33 schrieb Francis Greaves:
Well my PostfixAdmin is setup like this:
$CONF['encrypt'] = 'md5crypt';
and dovecot default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT
Use
$CONF['encrypt'] = 'dovecot:MD5-CRYPT' $CONF['dovecotpw'] = "/path/to/doveadm pw";
in conf.inc.php of Postfixadmin.
Alexander
On 2022-02-04 18:33, Francis Greaves wrote:
Well my PostfixAdmin is setup like this:
$CONF['encrypt'] = 'md5crypt';
and dovecot default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT
So I would have thought that would match OK.
I have tried a password with just AlphaNumeric characters, no special chars but same error.
and thats why i asked what is in mysql password field
no info no help here
should i keep repeat ?
That is a test user on a private network. Not publicly accessible at all.
Anyways, I have had the best luck on dovecot and postfix with the unix/linux utility "pass" to generate fairly long alphanumeric-only passwords as I have found that any special characters in passwords are ending up garbled or misinterpreted when I attempt to log in to dovecot on IMAP or POP.
On February 4, 2022 7:37:54 AM AKST, Benny Pedersen me@junc.eu wrote:
On 2022-02-04 17:17, Dr Francis Greaves wrote:
Any help much appreciated.
what is stored in mysql on the password field ?
you dont need to expose passwords in maillists !!!!
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