On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 21:18 -0500, C. Bensend wrote: > Well, I cranked the debug back up all the way and captured the > password. After whipping up a quick perl script to decode it, > it gives me my username and password, end-to-end, no delimiter. > Both the username and password are correct, and are the correct > case. If that is the correct format for the Base 64-encoded > string, it seems to be the right content.
So it's either NUL username NUL password or username NUL username NUL password ? > So. Uh. Why is dovecot giving back a "password mismatch" ? > I don't believe it's the system's authentication mechanism doing > anything weird, I have yet to fail a single SSH authentication (and > yes, I do use both password and key-based auth). Wonder if it has to do with a single process doing multiple lookups. That's the main difference compared to SSH and pretty much everything else.
