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On 29/09/2021 12:06, Nils Freydank wrote: |
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> Hi Wol, |
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> my credentials for dovecot have the following syntax, i.e. four additional |
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> colons after the password: |
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> '<user name>:<type of the password><password itself>::::' |
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> I use only virtual users, so I can't tell if mixing works, too. |
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> For the dovecot setup I can recommend this guide: |
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> https://prefetch.eu/blog/2020/email-server/#mda-dovecot |
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Looks quite a good guide ... |
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> Two general remarks: |
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> 1st, be more patient. This is a mailing list, not a support chat. |
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I know :-) but I thought 24hrs would lead to at least one bite ... :-) |
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> 2nd, I _strongly_ recommend to use some kind of hashing instead of plain |
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> passwords. I use '{ARGON2ID}' and generate the hashes by running |
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> 'doveadm pw -s ARGON2I' |
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> which asks for the plain text password on stdin. |
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Yup. But it's a home server and security is pretty lax anyway... |
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And having problems full stop I thought I'd try and get it working |
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before worrying about hashing - I've already tried hashing with exactly |
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the same results ... |
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These are the logs reported by systemctl ... |
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Sep 29 22:01:11 thewolery dovecot[1328]: auth-worker(4883): conn |
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unix:auth-worker (pid=4881,uid=76): auth-worker<1>: |
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passwd(antlists,192.168.1.65,<0zFJoSjNUfnAqAFB>): unknown user |
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Sep 29 22:01:11 thewolery dovecot[1328]: auth: Error: |
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passwd(antlists,192.168.1.65,<0zFJoSjNUfnAqAFB>): user not found from userdb |
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Sep 29 22:01:11 thewolery dovecot[1328]: imap: Error: auth-master: |
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login: request [2101346305]: Login auth request failed: Authenticated |
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user not found from userdb, auth lookup id=2101346305 (auth connect> |
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Sep 29 22:01:11 thewolery dovecot[1328]: imap-login: Internal login |
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failure (pid=4880 id=1): user=<antlists>, method=PLAIN, |
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rip=192.168.1.65, lip=192.168.1.218, mpid=4882, TLS, |
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session=<0zFJoSjNUfnAqAFB> |
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Sep 29 22:01:11 thewolery dovecot[1328]: auth-worker(4883): conn |
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unix:auth-worker (pid=4881,uid=76): auth-worker<2>: |
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passwd(antlists,192.168.1.65,<3ddJoSjNUvnAqAFB>): unknown user |
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Sep 29 22:01:11 thewolery dovecot[1328]: auth: Error: |
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passwd(antlists,192.168.1.65,<3ddJoSjNUvnAqAFB>): user not found from userdb |
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Sep 29 22:01:11 thewolery dovecot[1328]: imap: Error: auth-master: |
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login: request [2807693313]: Login auth request failed: Authenticated |
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user not found from userdb, auth lookup id=2807693313 (auth connect> |
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Sep 29 22:01:11 thewolery dovecot[1328]: imap-login: Internal login |
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failure (pid=4884 id=1): user=<antlists>, method=PLAIN, |
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rip=192.168.1.65, lip=192.168.1.218, mpid=4885, TLS, |
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session=<3ddJoSjNUvnAqAFB> |
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and from dovecot.conf |
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# authentication configuration: |
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auth_verbose = yes |
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auth_mechanisms = plain |
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passdb { |
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driver = passwd-file |
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args = /etc/dovecot/passwd |
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} |
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userdb { |
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driver = passwd-file |
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args = username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/passwd |
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override_fields = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%n |
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} |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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