"Temporary authentication failure" ? Cant connect with ldap user

Tue Feb 24 09:51:44 UTC 2015

Hmm...

*ldapsearch -x cn=admin* gives me:

| # A bunch of information not really interesting
| # search result
| search: 2
| result: 32 No such object
|
| numResponses: 1

*ldapsearch -x cn=admin* gives the same.
Did i configure the ldap wrong?

2015-02-24 10:42 GMT+01:00 Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de>:

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> On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, David Scheele wrote:
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>> The ldap-utils were already installed.
>> I did the ldapsearch you gave me, but after inputting my admin password it
>> gives me
>> *ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)*
>> I logged into the ldap server with my admin credentials (which worked
>> fine)
>> and changed my password to '12345', Trying that, still *Invalid
>> credentials*
>> .
>>
>
> Oh forgot:
>
> ldapsearch -x  ..
>
> Also try:
>
> ldapsearch -x cn=admin
>
>
> to get the full DN of the admin
>
>
>  1.) I tried that already. The error switches to syntax error then.
>> 2.) Not really. An upper case letter and a number + various lowercase
>> letters. Not very exotic.
>>
>> Is the pass_filter neccessary? I just wanted to make the installation as
>> basic as possible, to not get any unwanted errors.
>>
>> Best,
>> David
>>
>> 2015-02-24 10:02 GMT+01:00 Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
>> >:
>>
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>>> On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, David Scheele wrote:
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>>>  2015-02-24 8:05 GMT+01:00 Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
>>>> >:
>>>>
>>>>  On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, David Scheele wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  So, I set up the Server, installed and configured postfix, ldap and
>>>>>
>>>>>  dovecot
>>>>>> (in that order) and now simply try to log into the mail account with a
>>>>>> used
>>>>>> from the LDAP over telnet.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The test looks like this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *|> telnet localhost 143*
>>>>>> *| a bunch of stuff ending with:*
>>>>>> *| OK [**] Dovecot ready.*
>>>>>> *|> a login username userpassword*
>>>>>> *| a NO [UNAVAILABLE] Temporary authentication failure. [host and date
>>>>>> here]*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the logs it says
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *|[date] mailserver dovecot: auth: Error: LDAP: binding failed (dn
>>>>>> cn=admin): Invalid credentials*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But I KNOW the admin password I entered into the dovecot-lda.conf.ext
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> correct as I use it to log into the LDAP directory over jxplorer
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I also know the password for the user i try to log in with is correct
>>>>>> as i
>>>>>> set it myself over and over just to be sure there are no typos.
>>>>>> I'm at a loss, I've been at this end for a few days now and can't find
>>>>>> good
>>>>>> tutorials online because its either always an old dovecot, postfix,
>>>>>> ldap
>>>>>> or
>>>>>> debian version and somewhere in the middle it just stops because some
>>>>>> file
>>>>>> is completely missing. I get the impression I'm just not able-brained
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> linux useage.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyway, here are a few more informations about the system:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *Dovecot version 2.1.7*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Output of grep -v '^ *\(#.*\)\?$' dovecot-ldap.conf.ext:
>>>>>> *hosts = localhost*
>>>>>> *dn = cn=admin*
>>>>>> *dnpass = [password]*
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>  install the ldap-utils package - that one containing ldapsearch - and
>>> execute:
>>>
>>> ldapsearch -W -D cn=admin -b 'dc=[domainname],dc=de' \
>>> '(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=<<uid>>))'
>>>
>>> then enter your password.
>>>
>>> 1) I suppose, cn=admin is missing a domain name, e.g.
>>> dc=[domainname],dc=de .
>>>
>>> 2) does your dnpass contain "funny" characters?
>>>
>>>  *sasl_bind = no*
>>>
>>>> *tls = no*
>>>>>> *auth_bind = yes*
>>>>>> *ldap_version = 3*
>>>>>> *base = dc=[domainname],dc=de*
>>>>>> *user_attrs = uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid*
>>>>>> *user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u))*
>>>>>> *pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password*
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>  BTW: You do not habe no pass_filter or I deleted it last time.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Output of dovecot -n:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *disable_plaintest_auth = no*
>>>>>> *mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u*
>>>>>> *[namespace config here]*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *passdb {*
>>>>>> *args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext*
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> filename mismatch
>>>>>
>>>>>  *driver = ldap*
>>>>>
>>>>>  *}*
>>>>>> *plugin {*
>>>>>> *sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve*
>>>>>> *sieve_dir = ~/sieve*
>>>>>> *}*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *protocols = " imap pop3"*
>>>>>> *ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem*
>>>>>> *ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem*
>>>>>> *userdb {*
>>>>>> *args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext*
>>>>>> *driver =ldap*
>>>>>> *}*
>>>>>> *protocol pop3 {*
>>>>>> *pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh*
>>>>>> *pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv*
>>>>>> *}*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any help would be greatly apprechiated.... I'm going crazy over here.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>>> David
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  - -- Steffen Kaiser
>>>>>>
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