Authentication failure with OpenLDAP

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, Anushka Bandara wrote:

> * Error: User initialization failed: Namespace '':
> mkdir(/home/users/"user"/Desktop/Maildir) failed: Permission denied
> (euid=1000(myuser) egid=5000(<unknown>) missing +w perm: /home, we're not
> in group 100(users), dir owned by 0:100 mode=0775)*

Well, what is >>"user"<<, >>myuser<< and "<unknown>".
Which information did you modified? Where is the correct data?
Which permissions does /home/users/"user"/Desktop usually have? Is the 
uid/gid of /home/users/"user"/Desktop correspond to euid=1000 and 
egid=5000 ?

> How should I give the permission to overcome this error. This is a dovecot
> error. LDAP authentication is successful.
> And also, I don't know the default user whom is creating mail directories
> for mail users.
> I think the problem will be solved if I grant user the permission. But I
> don't know how to grant.

Maybe, maybe not.

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 2:54 PM, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi> wrote:
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>> Turn on auth_verbose=yes and auth_debug=yes and post logs.
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>> Aki Tuomi
>> Dovecot oy
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>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Anushka Bandara <anushkab at opensource.lk>
>> Date: 10/07/2018 08:53 (GMT+02:00)
>> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
>> Subject: Authentication failure with OpenLDAP
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>> Hi all,
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>> *Dovecot version: 2.2.22 (fe789d2)*
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>> *Ubuntu version: 16.04*
>> *OpenLDAP version: openldap-2.4.42+dfsg*
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>> *# 2.2.22 (fe789d2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf# Pigeonhole version 0.4.13
>> (7b14904)# OS: Linux 4.10.0-28-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
>> disable_plaintext_auth = nolisten = *log_path =
>> /var/log/dovecot.logmail_location = maildir:~/Maildirnamespace inbox {
>> inbox = yes  location =   mailbox Drafts {    special_use = \Drafts  }
>> mailbox Junk {    special_use = \Junk  }  mailbox Sent {    special_use =
>> \Sent  }  mailbox "Sent Messages" {    special_use = \Sent  }  mailbox
>> Trash {    special_use = \Trash  }  prefix = }passdb {  args =
>> /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext  driver = ldap}protocols = pop3
>> imapservice auth {  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {    mode
>> = 0666  }}ssl = nouserdb {  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext
>> driver = ldap}*
>> I am having "*Authentication failed" *problem with dovecot-ldap. Before
>> it, I had binding error and I fixed it. Now I am having authentication
>> problem when I am trying to log dovecot (usign telnet localhost 110) using
>> a user which is created in ldap server. I can provide any configuration
>> file and I did this configurations according to this "
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DovecotLDAP".
>> Now I am having an authentication error.
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>> Thank you
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Steffen Kaiser
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