On 03/06/2010 01:39 AM David Ramsey wrote:

I'm trying to configure dovecot on a SUSE system, and having trouble with the simplest possible authentication scheme: using the standard Linux users and passwords.

My configuration is:

dovecot -n # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.27.45-0.1-pae i686 openSUSE 11.1 (i586) protocols: imap pop3 ssl_listen: * ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 auth default: default_realm: renomustangcarclub.com passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

Attempts to log in:

99-26-248-100:~ dramsey$ telnet renomustangcarclub.com pop3 Trying 99.26.248.108... Connected to renomustangcarclub.com. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user dramsey +OK pass raskin -ERR Authentication failed.

Looking in the mail log file:

Mar 5 16:40:55 Microstar dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<dramsey@renomustangcarclub.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=99.26.248.100, lip=99.26.248.108

Any ideas?

grep dramsey@renomustangcarclub.com /etc/passwd will produce no output. Why do you set a default_realm?

Regards, Pascal

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