[Dovecot] Authentication Problems.
Hey-
I'm kinda new to Dovecot and I'm trying to do something and it seems I've hit a wall. I put together a server with Fedora Core 2, Exim 4.34, and Dovecot 0.99.10.6 and I need support mail for multiple domains so this is how I have my virtual setup:
Virtual Aliases Files: /var/virtualdomains/$domain/etc/aliases
Virtual Accounts Passwd File: /var/virtualdomains/$domains/etc/passwd with the following layout: user:passwd:uid:gid:Virtual User:/var/virtualdomains/domain.com/mail/user:/dev/null
Virtual Mailboxes: /var/virtualdomains/$domain/mail/$user
I got exim working without problem but when I tried to login via IMAP on Dovecot I'm getting 'a001 NO Authentication failed.'
Now I have this setup in dovecot.conf:
default_mail_env = mbox:/var/virtualdomains//%d/mail/%n/:INBOX=/var/virtualdomains/%d/mail/%n auth_userdb = passwd-file /var/virtualdomains/etc/virtpasswd
It's my understanding that Dovecot can't parse out the domain name in the auth_userdb command so I modifed my setup to use just the one password file and modified it to this; user@doman.com:passwd:uid:gid:Virtual User:/var/virtualdomains/domain.com/mail/user:/dev/null
Ownership/Group: -rwx------ 1 dovecot dovecot 36 Jul 13 18:41 passwd
Is there a setting I have wrong, a step I'm misisng, a permission I don't know about....let me know if there is any other information you might need and I will provide it.
TIA
Tom Ray
On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 03:02, Tom Ray [Lists] wrote:
default_mail_env = mbox:/var/virtualdomains//%d/mail/%n/:INBOX=/var/virtualdomains/%d/mail/%n
Aren't you giving here the same file as both a directory and INBOX mbox file? That doesn't work. The first path is supposed to be a directory where dovecot can create non-INBOX files and it's indexes.
It's my understanding that Dovecot can't parse out the domain name in the auth_userdb command so I modifed my setup to use just the one password file and modified it to this; user@doman.com:passwd:uid:gid:Virtual User:/var/virtualdomains/domain.com/mail/user:/dev/null
That should work.
Ownership/Group: -rwx------ 1 dovecot dovecot 36 Jul 13 18:41 passwd
That depends on what you have put in auth_user. It shouldn't be the same as login_user, so dovecot user is probably wrong here.
Is there a setting I have wrong, a step I'm misisng, a permission I don't know about....let me know if there is any other information you might need and I will provide it.
Set auth_verbose = yes, and check log files. It gives then exact reason why login failed.
Timo-
I did that and it seems to have helped a bit but now I'm getting this:
Jul 15 22:50:26 mx01-test dovecot-auth: PAM: pam_authenticate(tom@testdomain.com) failed: Authentication failure
I'm not using PAM is there a way to turn this off?
Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 03:02, Tom Ray [Lists] wrote:
default_mail_env = mbox:/var/virtualdomains//%d/mail/%n/:INBOX=/var/virtualdomains/%d/mail/%n
Aren't you giving here the same file as both a directory and INBOX mbox file? That doesn't work. The first path is supposed to be a directory where dovecot can create non-INBOX files and it's indexes.
It's my understanding that Dovecot can't parse out the domain name in the auth_userdb command so I modifed my setup to use just the one password file and modified it to this; user@doman.com:passwd:uid:gid:Virtual User:/var/virtualdomains/domain.com/mail/user:/dev/null
That should work.
Ownership/Group: -rwx------ 1 dovecot dovecot 36 Jul 13 18:41 passwd
That depends on what you have put in auth_user. It shouldn't be the same as login_user, so dovecot user is probably wrong here.
Is there a setting I have wrong, a step I'm misisng, a permission I don't know about....let me know if there is any other information you might need and I will provide it.
Set auth_verbose = yes, and check log files. It gives then exact reason why login failed.
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 06:59, Tom Ray [Lists] wrote:
I did that and it seems to have helped a bit but now I'm getting this:
Jul 15 22:50:26 mx01-test dovecot-auth: PAM: pam_authenticate(tom@testdomain.com) failed: Authentication failure
I'm not using PAM is there a way to turn this off?
Set auth_passdb as well to your passwd-file.
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Timo Sirainen
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Tom Ray [Lists]