Dovecot Error Retrieving Information About User
Common F23 Bugs Common F24 Bugs Communicate with Fedora The Documents Bug Reports Fedora Update System (Bodhi) Fedora Build System error retrieving information about user pam_succeed_if (Koji) Official Spins FedoraForum.org > Fedora 23/24 > Servers & error retrieving information about user ldap Networking [SOLVED] Dovecot errors on one user authentication failure FedoraForum Search User Name Remember Me? Password pam_succeed_if(sshd:auth): error retrieving information about user Forgot Password? Join Us! Register All Albums FAQ Today's Posts Search Servers & Networking Discuss any Fedora server problems and Networking issues such as dhcp, IP numbers, wlan, modems, etc. Google™ Search FedoraForum Search Red Hat Bugzilla Search Search Forums Show Threads Show Posts Tag Search Advanced Search Go to Page... Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes #1 28th April 2011, 01:46 AM sheehys Offline Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Vincennes Indiana Age: 52 Posts: 3 Dovecot errors on one user authentication failure Greetings all. I am new to to dovecot and would like some help, so please be kind. I have one user that can send mail but not read it either by pop3 or imap. I am running Dovecot 2.0.11 on Fedora 14 with the following conf dovecot -n # 2.0.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686.PAE i686 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ login_trusted_networks = 172.18.1.0/24 mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { driver = pam } ssl_cert = , method=PLAIN, rip=172.18.1.252, lip=69.174.165.199, mpid=27887, TLS dovecot: imap(gewirtzman): Error: user gewirtzman: Initialization failed: mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/gewirtzman dovecot: imap(gewirtzman): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. and in
Authentication Problem Username 30 posts / 0 new Log in or register to post comments Last post #1 Sat, 02/14/2009 - 12:39 mdtiberi Postfix Authentication Problem Username Been trying all morning to get postfix to work. Keep getting this error the logs. Forums are no help. Seem to be a simple error but the solution is alluding me. Thanks. OS CentOS 5.2 From secure log: Feb 14 14:38:08 ns1 dovecot-auth: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): check pass; user unknown Feb 14 14:38:08 ns1 dovecot-auth: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=dovecot ruser= rhost=::ffff:xx.xx.xx.138 Feb 14 14:38:08 ns1 dovecot-auth: pam_succeed_if(dovecot:auth): error retrieving information about user admin From maillog: dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: user=
Post edited by: mdtiberi, at: 2009/02/19 07:45 Log in or register to post comments #2 Sat, 02/14/2009 - 12:46 andreychek Well, the error message suggests that there is no user with the name "admin". Are you sure that's the correct name -- that there isn't perhaps a trailing domain name after that... maybe "admin@example.com" or "admin.example"? It should show you the full username when you look in Edit Mail https://www.virtualmin.com/node/9119 and FTP Users, under "IMAP/FTP login". -Eric Log in or register to post comments #3 Sat, 02/14/2009 - 12:58 (Reply to #2) mdtiberi It doesn't seem to matter if the domain name is included or not, same error occurs. Log in or register to post comments #4 Sat, 02/14/2009 - 13:10 (Reply to #3) mdtiberi "It should show you the full username when you look in Edit Mail and FTP Users, under "IMAP/FTP login" Yes, I checked that its fine. Log in or register to post comments #5 Sat, 02/14/2009 - 13:14 (Reply to #4) andreychek If you log in as root over SSH, and type: id admin What does it return? -Eric Log in or register to post comments #6 Sat, 02/14/2009 - 13:14 (Reply to #5) Joe Pro Licensee Are you using @ in the username? If so, have you read the FAQ about this particular username extension? (You have to configure saslauthd explicitly for this format.) http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/id,frequently_asked_questions/#w... Log in or register to post comments #7 Sat, 02/14/2009 - 13:16 (Reply to #6) mdtiberi It does show admin.domain.com I tried both variation in Thunderbird, one with the domain and without with no luck Log in or register to post comments #8 Sat, 02/14/2009 - 13:21 (Reply to #7) Joe Pro Lice
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one of our servers (which washit by a brute force attack on dovecot) showed an odd behavior.The short story:On one of our servers an attacker did a brute forceattack on dovecot (pop3).Since the attacker closed and reopened the connectionafter every user/password combination the logs showedmany lines like this:dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login: user=