dovecot - Aug 2004 - LDAP-auth not working

I have set up dovecot to use ldap authentication, but it only results in
dovecot crashing without any error message that would indicate why this
is the case.

I have spent *many* hours trying to fix this problem, but not found any
solution as to why it should crash.


maillog:
Aug 15 10:05:08 era dovecot: Dovecot starting up
Aug 15 10:05:09 era dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down
Aug 15 10:05:09 era dovecot: child 20833 (auth) killed with signal 11
Aug 15 10:05:09 era imap-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe

Settings to indicate ldap in dovecot.conf:
auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
auth_passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf


Basically, the settings in dovecot-ldap.conf is:

hosts = localhost:389
dn = cn=dovecot,ou=servers,dc=remiss,dc=org
dnpass = nada
base = dc=remiss,dc=org
deref = never
scope = subtree
user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,,,uidNumber,gidNumber
user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u))
pass_attrs = uid,userPassword


using ldapsearch -x -D "cn=dovecot,ou=servers,dc=remiss,dc=org" -w
nada
.... is successful.

Therefor I am wondering what in the world that causes "Auth process"
to
die too early.

Output of strace -f dovecot -F is available from 
http://remiss.org/download/log

Pid of auth-process here is 23286.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Roger.

On 15.8.2004, at 17:10, Roger Bystrom wrote:
> I have set up dovecot to use ldap authentication, but it only results 
> in
> dovecot crashing without any error message that would indicate why this
> is the case.
..
> Output of strace -f dovecot -F is available from 
> http://remiss.org/download/log
Well, I'd try linking dovecot-auth with less libraries if you only need 
LDAP, they might be trying to use conflicting library versions. 
Especially don't link with sasl2 library, it doesn't work in any case 
and looks like it's the last one that's trying to do something before 
crashing.
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Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 15.8.2004, at 17:10, Roger Bystrom wrote:
>
>> I have set up dovecot to use ldap authentication, but it only results
in
>> dovecot crashing without any error message that would indicate why this
>> is the case.
>
> ..
>
>> Output of strace -f dovecot -F is available from 
>> http://remiss.org/download/log
>
>
> Well, I'd try linking dovecot-auth with less libraries if you only 
> need LDAP, they might be trying to use conflicting library versions. 
> Especially don't link with sasl2 library, it doesn't work in any
case
> and looks like it's the last one that's trying to do something
before
> crashing.
Thanks, that solved the problem. :)