Master user password mismatch

[Aki Tuomi]

Did you try with `doveadm pw -t 'hash-goes-here'`?

Sometimes you need to use

passdb {
  driver = passwd-file
  args = scheme=your-pw-scheme /path/to/file
}

Note that the path must be placed last.

Aki

> On 28/01/2021 20:53 Gregory Sloop <gregs at sloop.net> wrote:
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> Anyone?
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> 	 Trying to get master users working.
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>  I'm not sure what info would be best, but here's the detail I have now, in trying to get it working.
>  Setup the master user file, and enabled master users in the conf files.
>  Created the master user file and user/password hash.
>  
>  Turned on authentication debug.
>  When I try something like:
>  telnet localhost 143
>  and then supply the master user login - kind of like this:
>  1 login joeb*jb-master somepassword
>  
>  I get this in the logs. (Some obfuscation done.)
>  ---
>  dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=24985)
>  dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: AUTH#0111#011PLAIN#011service=imap#011secured#011session=MM6QC9a5SIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB#011lip=::1#011rip=::1#011lport=143#011rport=34376#011resp=<hidden>
>  dovecot: auth: Debug: passwd-file(jb-master,::1,master,<MM6QC9a5SIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB>): Master user lookup for login: joeb
>  dovecot: auth: Debug: passwd-file(jb-master,::1,master,<MM6QC9a5SIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB>): lookup: user=jb-master file=/etc/dovecot/masterusers-test
>  dovecot: auth: passwd-file(jb-master,::1,master,<MM6QC9a5SIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB>): Password mismatch
>  dovecot: auth: Debug: client passdb out: FAIL#0111#011user=jb-master
>  ---
>  
>  Yet I can use
>  htpasswd -b -c -s /etc/dovecot/masterusers-test jb-master somepassword
>  And this succeeds. (I created the masterusers-test file with httpasswd)
>  
>  So, I must have the password right, but dovecot is till failing the auth, claiming a bad password.
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>  How do I go about getting more detail so I can determine what's wrong?
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>  TIA
>  -Greg
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