Dovecot & LDAP Take #2: Authentication failed and logging

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Fri Feb 27 14:56:13 UTC 2015


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On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, David Scheele wrote:
> But I still have two problems:
>
> 1.) For some reason my dovecot doesnt log correctly. I put debug_log to -1

? http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Logging?highlight=%28debug_log%29

> and expected to see logs flooding in in my syslog. When I try to log in via
> telnet over imap and the login succeeds it loggs correctly. But when it
> fails there is no log entry. Any clue what might cause this?
>
> And now the big fish:
>
> 2.) Still hanging to log a user in over telnet via imap. I'm pretty sure i
> have misconfigured something. first of all:
>
> 2a.) Is the *passdb* and *userdb* ind the dovecot.conf still needed in the
> newest version? It appears to me that all authing runs over the
> *10-auth.conf*, *auth-ldap.conf.ext* and *dovecot-ldap.conf.ext *and the
> passdb and userdb settings might just be remnants of the past? or am i
> wrong here?

Did you've consulted the Wiki?
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication

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Steffen Kaiser
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