[Freeipa-users] Dovecot/Postfix Auth, howto not working ?

[Dmitri Pal]

On 05/04/2014 05:22 PM, Matt . wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm trying to auth Dovecot agains FreeIPA using this tut:
>
> http://www.freeipa.org/page/Dovecot_IMAPS_Integration_with_FreeIPA_using_Single_Sign_On
>
> (and also Postfix using this: 
> https://www.dalemacartney.com/2013/03/14/deploying-postfix-with-ldap-freeipa-virtual-aliases-and-kerberos-authentication/ 
> (as it should be working with dovecot at the end I believe)
>
> I'm having some issues here and get the following errors no matter 
> what I do:
>
> May  4 23:13:18 mail-01 dovecot: auth: Fatal: No passdbs specified in 
> configuration file. LOGIN mechanism needs one
> May  4 23:13:18 mail-01 postfix/smtpd[2949]: error: open database 
> /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory
> May  4 23:13:18 mail-01 postfix/smtpd[2949]: warning: dict_nis_init: 
> NIS domain name not set - NIS lookups disabled
> May  4 23:13:18 mail-01 dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): command 
> startup failed, throttling
> May  4 23:13:18 mail-01 postfix/smtpd[2949]: connect from 
> unknown[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
> May  4 23:13:28 mail-01 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth 
> attempts): rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> May  4 23:13:28 mail-01 postfix/smtpd[2949]: fatal: no SASL 
> authentication mechanisms
> May  4 23:13:29 mail-01 postfix/master[1627]: warning: process 
> /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 2949 exit status 1
> May  4 23:13:29 mail-01 postfix/master[1627]: warning: 
> /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
> May  4 23:14:18 mail-01 dovecot: auth: Fatal: No passdbs specified in 
> configuration file. LOGIN mechanism needs one
> May  4 23:14:18 mail-01 dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): command 
> startup failed, throttling
> May  4 23:15:09 mail-01 postfix/anvil[2952]: statistics: max 
> connection rate 1/60s for (smtp:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) at May  4 23:13:18
> May  4 23:15:09 mail-01 postfix/anvil[2952]: statistics: max 
> connection count 1 for (smtp:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) at May  4 23:13:18
> May  4 23:15:09 mail-01 postfix/anvil[2952]: statistics: max cache 
> size 1 at May  4 23:13:18
>
> Outside the issue that it cannot find the aliasses db, I'm kinda stuck 
> here... the tut should be working "out of the box", but I have the 
> feeling I'm missing something here.
>
> I hope someone can help me out!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Matt
>
>
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I am not a specialist but it seems that no authentication methods are 
configured.
See the SASL line.
Can it be that the authentication mechanism is configured as SASL 
instead of GSSAPI?

-- 
Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio
Red Hat, Inc.

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