Morning all, I've managed to work my self into a corner and hoping someone can help me out

I have OpenLDAP and Dovecot installed based on the following documents: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DovecotLDAP https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenLDAPServer

When Dovecot is set up to log in without using LDAP, connections work fine. However as soon as I change the dovecot.conf to use ldap I get the following error when trying to log in:

error in syslog: dovecot: auth(default): ldap(myuser,10.10.10.10): invalid credentials (given password: myuserpasswd) dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL#0112#011user=myuser

I have checked via phpLDAPadmin that the password I am entering matches what is in the database, so from what I can see the issue lies in how Dovecot is passing the password to openLDAP, though I may be way off base here. No special characters in the passphrase other than spaces.

Would anyone be able to shed some light on this?

Server Setup and Dovecot Config Ubuntu Server 11.04

# uname -a Linux base 2.6.38-10-server #46-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 28 16:31:00 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux[

# slapd -V @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.23 (Apr 7 2011 18:00:55) $[/CODE][CODE]

# dovecot --version 1.2.15

# cat dovecot.conf base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imaps imap listen = * disable_plaintext_auth = no shutdown_clients = yes log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " ###ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/private/mail_mydomain_com.crt ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/mail_mydomain_com.key ssl_ca_file = /etc/ssl/private/comodo-bundle.crt mail_location = maildir:/home/MAIL/%n mail_privileged_group = mail mail_debug = yes protocol imap { ### login_greeting_capability = yes imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster@mydomain.com hostname = base auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mail_plugins = cmusieve } auth_verbose = no auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } # passdb passwd-file { # args = /etc/dovecot/passwd # } userdb static { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/MAIL/%n allow_all_users=yes } user = vmail socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 user = vmail # User running Dovecot LDA group = vmail # Or alternatively mode 0660 + LDA user in this group } } } dict { } plugin {

#cat dovecot-ldap.conf (with a number of commented out lines removed)

# Space separated list of LDAP hosts to use. host:port is allowed too. hosts= localhost

# Distinguished Name - the username used to login to the LDAP server dn= cn=admin,dc=mydomain

# Password for LDAP server dnpass = alongpasswd

auth_bind = yes

auth_bind_userdn = uid=%u,ou=Users,dc=mydomain

# LDAP protocol version to use. Likely 2 or 3. ldap_version = 3

# LDAP base. %variables can be used here. base = ou=Users,dc=mydomain

# Dereference: never, searching, finding, always deref = never

# Search scope: base, onelevel, subtree scope = subtree

user_attrs = mail=uid

user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%n))

# Password checking attributes: pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password ###,homeDirectory=userdb_home,uidNumber=userdb_uid,gidNumber=userdb_gid

# Filter for password lookups pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%n))

# Default password scheme. "{scheme}" before password overrides this. # List of supported schemes is in: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication default_pass_scheme = MD5