Re: [Dovecot] Failed IMAP Login Attempts in Logs
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:09:07 -0500, Carlos Williams wrote: > I had a user telling me that they can't login to the Postfix email > server via Webmail (RoundCube) and I decided to see if I could locate > this issue in the logs and understand if the user was simply using a > wrong password credential and or something more serious. More than > likely the person is just using a wrong password but in search of this > on my logs, I don't understand why Dovecot doesn't log failed login > attempts. > > Is there a log level or something I am not searching for that will > allow me to see failed or invalid logins for Dovecot (IMAP)? # In case of password mismatches, log the passwords and used scheme so the # problem can be debugged. Enabling this also enables auth_debug. #auth_debug_passwords = no auth_debug_passwords = yes
Re: [Dovecot] Failed IMAP Login Attempts in Logs
On 11:59 AM, Carlos Williams wrote: > > Is there a log level or something I am not searching for that will > allow me to see failed or invalid logins for Dovecot (IMAP)? What auth method are you using? For example, if you are using pam, the failures are probably in /var/log/secure. -- Mark Sapiro The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use your sense - B. Dylan
