[Wylug-discuss] Re: [Wylug-help] Dovecot authentication

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 13 Jan 2006 10:29, Chris Davies wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I'm having problems with authentication in dovecot.  Can anyone
> > advise?
>
> Well I use dovecot here (on debian "woody") so I'm happy to have a
> go.
>
> What sort of authentication? Which services? Virtual users or real
> accounts? You know the sort of thing.
>
OK - if I miss out anything, you'll have to prompt me :-)

I'm running sarge with dovecot 0.99.14.

I'm not looking for anything complicated.  I want plain login, using my 
own mail accounts.  It seems that part of the problem is that the 
documentation is for 1.0, and syntax is quite different.

I had it to the point where I could telnet localhost 143, but not get an 
authorised login.  Then, from the dovecot mailing list I got this:

auth default {
   mechanisms = plain login
   passdb = passwd-file [
     args = /some/path/passwd
   }
   userdb = passwd-file {
     args = /some/path/passwd
   }
}

but that is for 1.0.  I amended that, as instructed, to replace 
mechanisms, passdb and userdb with auth_mechanisms, auth_passdb and 
auth_userdb respectively, and set the paths to /etc/imap.passwd (which 
I had created with username, pass, UID, GID as found on the wiki).

Now it's complaining about args being an unknown setting, so I presume 
that that is different too.  Could you look at your dovecot.conf and 
see if you are using anything like this?  The original responder at the 
ML has not come back to me yet.

Thanks.

Anne
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