[Dovecot] Internal login failure

[Kazuo Moriwaka]

Hello,

From: Peter Clark <peter-clark at bethel.edu>
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Internal login failure
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:09:07 +0300

> On Wednesday 05 January 2005 07:09, Kazuo Moriwaka wrote:
> > > I'm using Dovecot 0.99.11 (Debian Sarge), and all user information is
> > > stored in an LDAP database. Any suggestions?
> >
> > Some bugs are fixed at ldap module after dovecot-0.99.11.
> > Please check dovecot-0.99.12 or dovecot-1.0-test59.
>     Out of curiosity, what exactly were the nature of the bugs? I'm stumped 

It was lack and excess of i_free(). 

> because it's so random; half of the users don't have any problems, while the 
> other half does. As far as Dovecot is concerned, the only fields are uid, 
> userPassword, mailAddress, and status. I've been over those, and can't see 
> anything wrong. I even deleted the account for a user that wasn't able to log 
> in, took the LDIF for a user that worked, and changed only the uid, password, 
> and mailAddress for the first user, and got the same results. It's like the 
> users have been mysteriously blacklisted by Dovecot, only because of their 
> name!

This maybe a new bug.

Please make a backtrace log as this page:
	  http://www.dovecot.org/bugreport.html 
And please show some sample LDIF entries which does and doesn't
cause this problem. It may be a help.

best regards,
-- 
Kazuo Moriwaka <moriwaka at valinux.co.jp>