[Dovecot] Just setup Dovecot and having a small problem.

[Tom Ray]

On 4/23/06, Angel Pavlov <angel at coffeejob.com> wrote:
>
> Tom Ray wrote:
>
> I've just installed Dovecot and am running into a bit of a problem with
> it. I'm using virtual email accounts and everything seems to be working up
> to a certain point. Let me break down how the server is setup.
>
> Each domain belongs under the directory /mail so it's path is basically:
> /mail/domain.tld. Within each domain directory there are two sub-directories
> etc and mail. Under /mail/domain.tld/etc I have two files setup aliases and
> passwd, the aliases file handles all mail aliasing for that domain and the
> passwd file holds the users account name and password. The password file has
> the accounts stored in the following format:
>
> user at domain.tld:(encrypted <user at domain.tld:%28encrypted>password):500:500:Virtual User:/mail/domain.tld/mail/user:/dev/null
>
> The password enctryption is basically htpasswd() style encryption. Now the
> problem I'm having is I keep getting authentication errors when I try to
> login via POP3 (I'm testing via command line so I do `telnet localhost
> 110`). At first I had only auth_debug_passwords=yes set and I was seeing
> this in the log file:
>
> Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): client in:
> AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=POP3^Isecured^Ilip=
> 127.0.0.1^Irip=127.0.0.1^Iresp=AHRvbUBkZXRyb2l0b25saW5lLmNvbQBuZXdiZXJn
> Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): pam(user at domain.tld,127.0.0.1):
> pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure
> Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file
> /mail/domain.tld/etc/passwd: Read 1 users
> Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(user at domain.tld,
> 127.0.0.1): unknown user
> Apr 23 18:54:20 www dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL^I1^Iuser=
> user at domain.tld
>
> So I can see it's reading the proper password file but it claims that user
> doesn't exist, however, that user does exist. When I turn on
> auth_verbose=yes and I'm still seeing the same errors in the log file.
>
> Can someone tell me what I'm missing here? I'm really on a time crunch
> with this, our mail server died friday morning and it's been put on me to
> fix it. They insist I use UW IMAP but I can't get it to work with the
> vitrtual users like the previous guy did. I've used Dovecot before but it's
> been two years and I can't remember how I got everything working before.
> They want things back to normal by Monday morning (tomorrow) so now I'm a
> bit stressed since I've lost most my weekend rebuilding the server and
> users.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. I thought I had this setup just right but I
> just can't get passed it telling me the user doesn't exsist.
>
>
>  try :
>
> 1. htpasswd file formated : user at domain.tld:(encrypted<user at domain.tld:%28encrypted>password)
> 2. Without PAM
>
> good luck !
>
> Angel
>


I'm still getting told that the user doesn't exist. It's loading the proper
password file, but it just doesn't see the user...it should be parsing it
right correct?
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