Re: Config: Reading value from file for password does not work

I wonder if it would be better solution to use $ENV:LDAP_AUTH_DN_PASSWORD instead? Also, the file you read the password needs to be root:dovecot 0640

Aki

> On 19/04/2026 18:07 EEST René Neumann via dovecot <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>  
> Forgot to add: I'm using dovecot v2.4.3
> 
> Am 19.04.26 um 15:52 schrieb René Neumann via dovecot:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I want to read the ldap auth-dn password from a file to avoid having it 
> > as part of the configuration (which may be checked into VCS).
> > 
> > I specified
> > 
> > ldap_auth_dn_password = </some/file
> > 
> > where /some/file contains the password without extra whitespace (esp. 
> > there is no `\n`, I checked with xxd).
> > 
> > But ldap auth does not succeed because of a wrong password. Password 
> > itself does work though, as checked with ldapsearch (even using the same 
> > file as password provider)
> > 
> > `doveconf -x -P` *does* show the correct value.
> > 
> > The same issue has been reported back in 2019 [1], without any reply 
> > though :-/
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > René
> > 
> > [1] https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2019-September/117100.html
> > 
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