Dovecot can't read other userdb than /etc/passwd
I had the last day alot of trouble with the dovecot userdb.
The problem was that dovecot only read the /etc/passwd and not my custom /etc/dovecot/users file.
I changed the /etc/dovecot/auth-passwdfile.conf.ext so that it looked like this (vmail is a user i created on my debian machine):
# Authentication for passwd-file users. Included from 10-auth.conf.
# passwd-like file with specified location.
# <doc/wiki/AuthDatabase.PasswdFile.txt>
passdb {
driver = passwd-file
args = /etc/dovecot/users
}
userdb {
driver = static
args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u
}
My users file looked like this (sysntax of the /etc/passwd file):
test:{PLAIN}pass::::::
bill:{PLAIN}secret::::::
But when I checked if dovecot could read my users file (comand: doveadm user USERNAME) it failed reading the users file.
After I checked if everything was spelled correctly I started searching for the error.
And I found it :)
Since the dovecot.conf is just a file including other config files is started to search in those for the error. Somehow dovecot was still searching in /etc/passwd for the users and not in my /etc/dovecot/users file, eventhough I changed the auth-passwdfile.conf.ext.
The was in the 10-auth.conf file. This file has several options to include conf files. As default it includes the auth-system.conf.ext file.
But this file defines still that /etc/passwd is used as our userdb.
So I commented this line and decommented the line including our auth-passwd.conf.ext file.
And just to be save I also changed the path in the auth-system.conf.ext file to our /etc/dovecot/users userdb file.
And that's It.
Afters this it worked. The doveadm user test comand is working.
As I am relativly new to this kind of stuff I would be interested in feedback for this solution. And please excuse my bad English.
debian authentication postfix dovecot mail-server
asked Dec 20 '18 at 11:33
SlartiDevSlartiDev
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I had the last day alot of trouble with the dovecot userdb.
The problem was that dovecot only read the /etc/passwd and not my custom /etc/dovecot/users file.
I changed the /etc/dovecot/auth-passwdfile.conf.ext so that it looked like this (vmail is a user i created on my debian machine):
# Authentication for passwd-file users. Included from 10-auth.conf.
# passwd-like file with specified location.
# <doc/wiki/AuthDatabase.PasswdFile.txt>
passdb {
driver = passwd-file
args = /etc/dovecot/users
}
userdb {
driver = static
args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u
}
My users file looked like this (sysntax of the /etc/passwd file):
test:{PLAIN}pass::::::
bill:{PLAIN}secret::::::
But when I checked if dovecot could read my users file (comand: doveadm user USERNAME) it failed reading the users file.
After I checked if everything was spelled correctly I started searching for the error.
And I found it :)
Since the dovecot.conf is just a file including other config files is started to search in those for the error. Somehow dovecot was still searching in /etc/passwd for the users and not in my /etc/dovecot/users file, eventhough I changed the auth-passwdfile.conf.ext.
The was in the 10-auth.conf file. This file has several options to include conf files. As default it includes the auth-system.conf.ext file.
But this file defines still that /etc/passwd is used as our userdb.
So I commented this line and decommented the line including our auth-passwd.conf.ext file.
And just to be save I also changed the path in the auth-system.conf.ext file to our /etc/dovecot/users userdb file.
And that's It.
Afters this it worked. The doveadm user test comand is working.
As I am relativly new to this kind of stuff I would be interested in feedback for this solution. And please excuse my bad English.
debian authentication postfix dovecot mail-server
asked Dec 20 '18 at 11:33
SlartiDevSlartiDev
11
add a comment |
I had the last day alot of trouble with the dovecot userdb.
The problem was that dovecot only read the /etc/passwd and not my custom /etc/dovecot/users file.
I changed the /etc/dovecot/auth-passwdfile.conf.ext so that it looked like this (vmail is a user i created on my debian machine):
# Authentication for passwd-file users. Included from 10-auth.conf.
# passwd-like file with specified location.
# <doc/wiki/AuthDatabase.PasswdFile.txt>
passdb {
driver = passwd-file
args = /etc/dovecot/users
}
userdb {
driver = static
args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u
}
My users file looked like this (sysntax of the /etc/passwd file):
test:{PLAIN}pass::::::
bill:{PLAIN}secret::::::
But when I checked if dovecot could read my users file (comand: doveadm user USERNAME) it failed reading the users file.
After I checked if everything was spelled correctly I started searching for the error.
And I found it :)
Since the dovecot.conf is just a file including other config files is started to search in those for the error. Somehow dovecot was still searching in /etc/passwd for the users and not in my /etc/dovecot/users file, eventhough I changed the auth-passwdfile.conf.ext.
The was in the 10-auth.conf file. This file has several options to include conf files. As default it includes the auth-system.conf.ext file.
But this file defines still that /etc/passwd is used as our userdb.
So I commented this line and decommented the line including our auth-passwd.conf.ext file.
And just to be save I also changed the path in the auth-system.conf.ext file to our /etc/dovecot/users userdb file.
And that's It.
Afters this it worked. The doveadm user test comand is working.
As I am relativly new to this kind of stuff I would be interested in feedback for this solution. And please excuse my bad English.
debian authentication postfix dovecot mail-server
asked Dec 20 '18 at 11:33
SlartiDevSlartiDev
11
I had the last day alot of trouble with the dovecot userdb.
The problem was that dovecot only read the /etc/passwd and not my custom /etc/dovecot/users file.
I changed the /etc/dovecot/auth-passwdfile.conf.ext so that it looked like this (vmail is a user i created on my debian machine):
# Authentication for passwd-file users. Included from 10-auth.conf.
# passwd-like file with specified location.
# <doc/wiki/AuthDatabase.PasswdFile.txt>
passdb {
driver = passwd-file
args = /etc/dovecot/users
}
userdb {
driver = static
args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u
}
My users file looked like this (sysntax of the /etc/passwd file):
test:{PLAIN}pass::::::
bill:{PLAIN}secret::::::
But when I checked if dovecot could read my users file (comand: doveadm user USERNAME) it failed reading the users file.
After I checked if everything was spelled correctly I started searching for the error.
And I found it :)
Since the dovecot.conf is just a file including other config files is started to search in those for the error. Somehow dovecot was still searching in /etc/passwd for the users and not in my /etc/dovecot/users file, eventhough I changed the auth-passwdfile.conf.ext.
The was in the 10-auth.conf file. This file has several options to include conf files. As default it includes the auth-system.conf.ext file.
But this file defines still that /etc/passwd is used as our userdb.
So I commented this line and decommented the line including our auth-passwd.conf.ext file.
And just to be save I also changed the path in the auth-system.conf.ext file to our /etc/dovecot/users userdb file.
And that's It.
Afters this it worked. The doveadm user test comand is working.
As I am relativly new to this kind of stuff I would be interested in feedback for this solution. And please excuse my bad English.
debian authentication postfix dovecot mail-server
debian authentication postfix dovecot mail-server
asked Dec 20 '18 at 11:33
SlartiDevSlartiDev
11
asked Dec 20 '18 at 11:33
SlartiDevSlartiDev
11
asked Dec 20 '18 at 11:33
SlartiDevSlartiDev
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asked Dec 20 '18 at 11:33
SlartiDevSlartiDev
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asked Dec 20 '18 at 11:33
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