[Dovecot] dovecot NTLM authentication

[Lior Okman]

On 3/6/06, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 15:26 +0200, Lior Okman wrote:
> > When I compare the NTLM hash provided by the dovecotpw utility to the
> > one I have in my SAMBA ldap, it appears to be exactly the same.
> >
> > When I use the LDAP passdb backend, I can see in the log file that
> > dovecot has received the correct NTLM hash value, but outlook fails to
> > authenticate successfully.
> >
> > I'm using the debianized dovecot version v1.0.beta2.
>
> It shouldn't matter if it's in LDAP or in passwd-file. I'd guess it
> reads the scheme wrong. The passwords in LDAP probably aren't prefixed
> with {NTLM}? Have you set default_pass_scheme = NTLM in
> dovecot-ldap.conf?
>
> Have you tried if plaintext logins work with NTLM hashes in LDAP? If
> they don't, try setting auth_debug=yes and auth_debug_passwords=yes and
> check if the logs help.
>

I've tried putting plaintext passwords in LDAP, and this time it
works. Putting the NTLM hash in LDAP still fails, but the value in
LDAP is exactly the same as the value generated by dovecotpw.

What should I try next?