Re: "unknown user - trying the next userdb" Info in log

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 21:07:28 -0800


On 30 January 2019 at 06:37 James Brown via dovecot < [email protected]> wrote:


On 30 Jan 2019, at 10:57 am, Stephan Bosch < [email protected] <mailto: [email protected]>> wrote:
Op 30/01/2019 om 00:06 schreef James Brown via dovecot:
On 30 Jan 2019, at 9:24 am, Stephan Bosch < [email protected] <mailto: [email protected]>> wrote:



Op 29/01/2019 om 01:51 schreef James Brown via dovecot:
I’ve set up a new mail server. Auth-worker is giving me this error all the time:

auth-worker(11160): Info: passwd( [email protected] <mailto: [email protected]> <mailto: [email protected] <mailto: [email protected]>>,10.0.0.54,<YSFoAYHAGoLAqAEo>): unknown user - trying the next userdb

That is not an error. As the "Info: " prefix indicates, this is an innocuous informational message.

Regards,

Stephan.

Thanks Stephan.

I know it’s not a major thing, it’s just that it is every third line of my log.

Ie I get the auth-worker unknown user, then successful imap-login, then the imap logout.

So I’m just trying to figure out what is causing the auth-worker lookup failure so I can fix it. I did not have this in my old mail server, just the new one I’ve setup.

Is it a database issue or a Dovecot config issue? If so where?
Ýou can enable auth_verbose and auth_debug to get an idea what Dovecot is doing. You should post your `dovecot -n` to get more help on this issue.

Regards,

Stephan.
Will look at auth_debug. It is a lot to go through!

My settings:

$ sudo dovecot -n
Password:
# 2.3.4 (0ecbaf23d): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Darwin 18.2.0 x86_64 apfs
# Hostname: mail.bordo.com.au < http://mail.bordo.com.au/>
auth_debug = yes
auth_verbose = yes
auth_verbose_passwords = plain
default_internal_user = jlbrown
default_login_user = jlbrown
first_valid_gid = 0
first_valid_uid = 102
last_valid_gid = 501
last_valid_uid = 105
log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
mail_gid = 102
mail_location = maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%d/%u
mail_uid = 102
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
location =
mailbox Drafts {
special_use = \Drafts
}
mailbox Junk {
special_use = \Junk
}
mailbox Sent {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox "Sent Messages" {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox Trash {
special_use = \Trash
}
prefix =
}
passdb {
args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
driver = sql
}
protocols = imap pop3
service auth {
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
group = _postfix
mode = 0660
user = _postfix
}
unix_listener auth-userdb {
mode = 0660
user = _vmail
}
}
service imap-login {
process_limit = 512
}
service stats {
fifo_listener stats-mail {
mode = 0666
}
fifo_listener stats-user {
mode = 0666
}
unix_listener stats-writer {
mode = 0666
}
}
ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/dovecot/mail.bordo.com.au.pem
ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it
ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it
userdb {
driver = passwd
}
userdb {
driver = prefetch
}
userdb {
args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
driver = sql
}

Well... there is that usetdb passwd which seems bit extraneous.
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Aki Tuomi

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