[Dovecot] Dovecot-auth stand alone and --without-pam

[Jorgen Lundman]

Interesting side note. So I disabled everything I did not need, just ldap for 
now. Changed my configuration to have just:

   passdb ldap {
     args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
   }
   userdb prefetch {
   }



auth default_with_listener {
   mechanisms = plain login
   passdb ldap {
     args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
   }
   userdb prefetch {
   }

Note the "passdb" change from default.

I found when I did this, I could not authenticate:

535 5.7.0 Error: authentication failed: UGFzc3dvcmQ6
Oct 18 16:45:15 corpsmtp01 dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth(default_with_list
ener): ldap(lundman): Password mismatch
Oct 18 16:45:15 corpsmtp01 dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth(default_with_list
ener): ldap(lundman): crypt(MyPlainTextPass) != 'MyCryptPass'

It turns out, using "--without-pam" is no good, so I compiled it with "pam" 
support again, changed the listener section to:

auth default_with_listener {
   mechanisms = plain login
   passdb pam {
   }
   userdb prefetch {
   }

and suddenly it works again:

235 2.0.0 Authentication successful

Intentional?

Lund


Jorgen Lundman wrote:
> 
> 
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
>>
>> protocols = none works.
>>
> 
> 
> Damnit! I have been reading your code to figure out how to start it 
> stand-alone!
> 
> # export USERDB_1_DRIVER=prefetch
> # export PASSDB_1_DRIVER=ldap
> # export PASSDB_1_ARGS=/usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
> # export MECHANISMS="plain login"
> # export AUTH_1=/var/spool/postfix/private/auth
> # export AUTH_1_MODE=0660
> # /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth
> 
> Oh well, I'll run "dovecot" master instead :)
> 
> Lund
> 

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