[Dovecot] Authenticate login failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism

[Orchun Kolcu]

Stable 6/30 build. I'm using SSL with plaintext enabled. Should I try
the 0.99?

On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:31:53 +0100, "Chris Wakelin"
<c.d.wakelin at reading.ac.uk> said:
> Which version of Dovecot? Do you have "disable_plaintext_auth" set to 
> "yes" but not using SSL/TLS?
> 
> Best Wishes,
> Chris
> 
> Orchun Kolcu wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just switched (or tried to) from UW-IMAP to dovecot. When I try to
> > login through the telnet client I get:
> > 1 NO Authentication failed and in the log I get:
> > imap-login: Authenticate PLAIN failed: Unsupported authentication
> > mechanism
> > 
> > If I try to login through the IMAP client (Thunderbird), in the log I
> > get the slightly different:
> > imap-login: Authenticate login failed: Unsupported authentication
> > mechanism
> > 
> > Here's the auth setup from the conf:
> > auth default {
> >   mechanisms = plain
> >   passdb = pam imap
> >   userdb = passwd
> >   user = root
> > }
> > 
> > And here's /etc/pam.d/imap for good measure:
> > auth       required     pam_nologin.so
> > auth       required     pam_stack.so service=system-auth
> > account    required     pam_stack.so service=system-auth
> > session    required     pam_stack.so service=system-auth
> > 
> > 
> > The server is a fairly standard Redhat 8 setup. Any idea what's going
> > on? Thanks!
> 
> 
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