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From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: SSL problems on dovecot 2.1.7
Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 16:20:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874necdyk4.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txmceaxj.fsf@dod.no>

Turns out this wasn't an SSL issue at all.  Or at least I think it
wasn't... it may come back to that.

One problem I had with debugging this, was that I've had no logging
since the upgrade.  Which eventually (as in: half an hour ago) led me to
suspect the syslogd... and it turned out that I didn't have one:

 rainey:~# dpkg -S /etc/syslog.conf 
 sysklogd: /etc/syslog.conf
 rainey:~# dpkg -l sysklogd
 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
 | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
 |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
 ||/ Name                        Version            Architecture       Description
 +++-===========================-==================-==================-============================================================
 rc  sysklogd                    1.5-6              i386               System Logging Daemon

sysklogd exists for squeeze and sid, but not for wheezy and testing:
 http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/sysklogd

It turns out debian has changed its preferred syslogd from sysklogd to
rsyslog: http://wiki.debian.org/Rsyslog

An "apt-get install rsyslog" installed the new syslogd and then dovecot
started logging to /var/log/mail.log.

It turns out the reason I can't log in, is that I'm trying a cram-md5
login, which none of the configured password providers can provide:
 May  9 15:08:47 rainey dovecot: auth: Fatal: CRAM-MD5 mechanism can't be supported with given passdbs
 May  9 15:08:47 rainey dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling for 60 secs

Oh well!




  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-09 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-09  9:53 Steinar Bang
2013-05-09 10:14 ` Steinar Bang
2013-05-09 10:44 ` Adam Sjøgren
2013-05-09 11:40   ` Steinar Bang
2013-05-09 14:09     ` Bjørn Mork
2013-05-09 14:20 ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2013-05-09 18:24 ` James Cloos

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