can't authenticate

[Christian Mack]

Hello

> passdb {
>   driver = pam
> }

Is user fred defined on your development machine?
Does the password match the one from the production machine?


Kind regards,
Christian Mack

On 26.01.22 21:14, David Matthews wrote:
> My live mail exchanger and development machines have identical dovecot setups, yet I cannot login on the development machine:-
> 
> dovecot --version
> 2.3.13 (89f716dc2)
> 
>> telnet localhost 143
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to bulawayo.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE LITERAL+ STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot (Debian) ready.
> a login fred xxxxxxxxxxx
> a NO [UNAVAILABLE] Temporary authentication failure. [bulawayo:2022-01-26 20:02:14]
> 
> same if I try openssl s_client to 993
> 
>> tail /var/log/mail.log
> Jan 26 20:03:28 bulawayo dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth service reported temporary failure): user=<fred>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured, session=<1MRorYHWwOp/AAAB>
> 
> doveconf -n
> # 2.3.13 (89f716dc2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # Pigeonhole version 0.5.13 (cdd19fe3)
> # OS: Linux 5.10.0-10-amd64 x86_64 Debian 11.1 
> # Hostname: bulawayo
> mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> mail_privileged_group = mail
> namespace 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 {
>   driver = pam
> }
> protocols = " imap"
> service imap-login {
>   inet_listener imap {
>     port = 143
>   }
>   inet_listener imaps {
>     port = 993
>     ssl = yes
>   }
> }
> ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
> ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs
> ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it
> ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it
> userdb {
>   driver = passwd
> }
> 
> --
> David Matthews
> mail at dmatthews.org
> 


-- 
Christian Mack
Universität Konstanz
Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum (KIM)
Abteilung IT-Dienste Forschung und Lehre
78457 Konstanz
+49 7531 88-4416

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