I am trying to do authentication with /etc/passwd and something is not working
right for me. Pls help!
When i try to authenticate via pop3, I get: -ERR Authentication failed.
In the logs, I get:
May 21 11:14:07 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN
service=pop3 secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 lport=110
rport=32774 resp=AGp1bmUAU0lORzNlcnQ=
May 21 11:14:07 Info: auth(default): passwd(test1,127.0.0.1): lookup
May 21 11:14:07 Info: auth(default): passwd(test1,127.0.0.1): Password mismatch
May 21 11:14:07 Info: auth(default): passwd(test1,127.0.0.1): CRYPT(password)
!= 'x'
May 21 11:14:09 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=test1
May 21 11:14:17 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts):
user=<test1>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
dovecot -n:
Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more
than 768). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and
max_mail_processes settings
# OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4u
info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log
protocols: imap pop3
listen(default): 127.0.0.1:143
listen(imap): 127.0.0.1:143
listen(pop3): *
ssl_disable: yes
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
login_greeting: IMAP ready.
login_processes_count: 2
mail_debug: yes
mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3
namespace:
type: private
separator: .
prefix: INBOX.
inbox: yes
list: yes
subscriptions: yes
auth default:
verbose: yes
debug: yes
debug_passwords: yes
passdb:
driver: passwd
userdb:
driver: passwd
args: blocking=yes
