I’ve attempted the user Mail with the same password with the same result (binding as my own user was a last-ditch attempt).
aaron@aaron-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:/etc/sssd$ ldapsearch -x -H ldap://dc1.ad.automaton.uk -D CN=aaron.jenkins,CN=users,DC=ad,DC=automaton,DC=uk -W - -b CN=aaron.jenkins,CN=users,DC=ad,DC=automaton,DC=uk Enter LDAP Password: # extended LDIF # # LDAPv3 # base <CN=aaron.jenkins,CN=users,DC=ad,DC=automaton,DC=uk> with scope subtree # filter: (objectclass=*) # requesting: - # # aaron.jenkins, Users, ad.automaton.uk dn: CN=aaron.jenkins,CN=Users,DC=ad,DC=automaton,DC=uk # search result search: 2 result: 0 Success # numResponses: 2 # numEntries: 1 Same with the user Mail On November 25, 2014 at 2:18:26 AM, Steffen Kaiser (skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de<mailto:skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de>) wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 25 Nov 2014, Aaron Jenkins wrote: > I’m having issues getting Dovecot to work with AD on 2012 R2 in a test > environment. > … > Nov 19 09:22:23 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=10345) > Nov 19 09:22:23 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured > session=pkJxdDkISwAK0zcd lip=10.211.55.33 rip=10.211.55.29lport=993 > rport=56395 > Nov 19 09:22:23 auth: Debug: client passdb out: CONT 1 > Nov 19 09:22:23 auth: Debug: client in: CONT 1 (previous base64 data may > contain sensitive data) > Nov 19 09:22:29 auth: Debug: client passdb out: FAIL 1 user=aaron.jenkins temp Your conf: auth_bind = yes dn = aaron.jenkins dnpass = dummypass1 auth_bind_userdn = CN=%u,CN=users,DC=ad,DC=automaton,DC=uk Can you really succeed a simple auth with the dn aaron.jenkins ? This ought to be a full DN. As I understand auth_bind_userdn, you do not need dn/dnpass anyway, because auth_bind_userdn prevents searching for the user's DN, in which case Dovecot requires a connection before any user bind takes place. I wonder if the log shows the error from this setting or from the user's login attempt. Could you try another user? Can you auth from command line via ldapsearch -x -H ldap://dc1.ad.automaton.uk -D \ CN=aaron.jenkins,CN=users,DC=ad,DC=automaton,DC=uk -W \ - -b CN=aaron.jenkins,CN=users,DC=ad,DC=automaton,DC=uk - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBVHRYQ3z1H7kL/d9rAQLlKgf9GB2o0/T84E9KykVU/IkoCuLQLfaNeTzg tI26Puwl1+tHXY+WkJs8uHTsKWaI5Qyh0Fv/6bR3ZSB5QhEkAQSE87WKfSJCe6FX i1261C5oLSqA8mWYoyPnkeHuHDFKp9YULnfqgBbLzz/7Y63i0dDgaql5stELZSwa XCzUwrEWdxdzgt8h7mnfG6fHn4xxfLeKCiA5e62afjXux4eCGclcytXOpIgl8z7u bULhGmxqyYDvjkGXCex/LYtKx+S6zSIMg/8Ior6SrPBy+IK0qUtwPoOssCY4cycd 4ZRVdvxjmjbHrzQdV/ZJn+jLqSI016l/lzASP7SUptHb8CjwxZxeCw== =6Zsw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----