[Dovecot] authentication problems with pam_mkhomedir

2011-07-14 Thread Defenestrate
Hi! I'm struggling with pam_mkhomedir. Accounts are stored in LDAP (CentOS Directory Server AKA 389 Directory Server). I am not pre-creating user home directories, and would like to use the pam_mkhomedir module to create the directories on the fly, when a user is authenticated via pop3s. pam_mkh

Re: [Dovecot] Authentication problems - SOLVED

2008-09-02 Thread Rodti MacLeary
On 1 Sep 2008, at 13:34, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 13:29 +0100, Rodti MacLeary wrote: In this install Postfix passes SASL authentication to Dovecot. For most clients using SSL this works fine, but as soon as SSL is off it fails. This is despite having disable_plaintext_aut

Re: [Dovecot] Authentication problems

2008-09-01 Thread Rodti MacLeary
On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:35:56 +0300, Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, one guess: Do you store passwords in CRAM-MD5 or plaintext format? > If not, maybe your clients are trying to use CRAM-MD5 and it's failing > because of that? Logs would show that anyway. All passwords are hashed

Re: [Dovecot] Authentication problems

2008-09-01 Thread Rodti MacLeary
On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:17:27 +0300, Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Extracts of /var/log/mail.log attached below. Nothing new in mail.err. > > Those are only Postfix's logs. See Dovecot's logs. > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging Sorry, I pulled these from syslog: Sep 1 13:52:36 lo

Re: [Dovecot] Authentication problems

2008-09-01 Thread R A
Hi This sounds to me like the failing Outlook clients might fall over to CRAM-MD5 and you need to use the %m to map out the method sasl uses to return the right password. Then you need to either use the source packet from ubuntu intrepid and apply this patch http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/

Re: [Dovecot] Authentication problems

2008-09-01 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 13:29 +0100, Rodti MacLeary wrote: > auth default: > mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 > passdb: > driver: sql > args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf Oh, one guess: Do you store passwords in CRAM-MD5 or plaintext format? If not, maybe your clients are trying to use

Re: [Dovecot] Authentication problems

2008-09-01 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 13:29 +0100, Rodti MacLeary wrote: > In this install Postfix passes SASL authentication to Dovecot. For most > clients using SSL this works fine, but as soon as SSL is off it fails. > This is despite having disable_plaintext_auth set to 'no'. Furthermore it > appears that s

[Dovecot] Authentication problems

2008-09-01 Thread Rodti MacLeary
Hi there, I'm in a bit of a dilemma and wonder if anyone can help. Over the weekend I bought a new dedicated server and moved my mail/web over to it. I'd used the Sarge[1] tutorial at workaround.org for the old server and as I'd wanted to move to Dovecot for a while I decided to use their Etch[2