On 06/01/2022 01:16, Ken Wright wrote:
I've been having trouble logging into my email server (postfix 3.4.13,
dovecot 2.3.7.2, postfixadmin 3.3.8). I decided to try the doveadm
auth test, and got the following result:
kwright@grace:~$ sudo doveadm auth test m...@mydomain.com
Password:
passdb: m...@mydomain.com auth failed
extra fields:
user=m...@mydomain.com
I logged in to PostfixAdmin and made sure I was using the correct
password, but got exactly the same result afterward. Should I have
restarted Dovecot after changing the password? I'm totally confused by
this problem; any and all suggestions will be gratefully received!
Ken
Ken
Dovecot does have credential caching, so potentially the info could be
coming from the cache though dovecot uses some logic to understand when
it should do a new query so normally its not necessary to flush the
cache or restart dovecot after changing a password. If you're doing
testing on a a non live server in the process of being set up then you
may want to take the cautious approach of restarting dovecot.
The command output you gave above does not provide useful information
about why the command is failing. You may be able to find other
information in the log.
You may want to investigate turning on authentication and password
debugging to progress this problem.
auth_debug = yes
auth_debug_passwords = yes
(and restart dovecot)
Then try an authentication test again or even a full login test
doveadm auth login username
Those settings will give you information in the log about what dovecot
is doing internally in relation to lookup up the user info and password
including information about password mismatches.
John
