Authentication failure with OpenLDAP

[Anushka Bandara]

Thank you all. I found the problem. The problem was a permission error of
Maildir. I grant permission to write that folder. Problem solved. :)




Best regards,
Anushka Bandara
Research Engineer,
Lanka Software Foundation
+94715846018

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 2:42 PM, Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at inf.h-brs.de>
wrote:

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> On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, Anushka Bandara wrote:
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> * 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)*
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Maybe, maybe not.
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> 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 {
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>>> = 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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