Dovecot & LDAP Take #2: Authentication failed and logging

[David Scheele]

Thanks for the reply. I did indeed consult the wiki. But most of the time
it seems some information is old and/or more confusing then helping.
But I'll take another look.

2015-02-27 15:56 GMT+01:00 Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de>:

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> On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, David Scheele wrote:
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>> But I still have two problems:
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>> 1.) For some reason my dovecot doesnt log correctly. I put debug_log to -1
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> ? http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Logging?highlight=%28debug_log%29
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>  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?
>>
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> Did you've consulted the Wiki?
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication
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> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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