Re: Config: Reading value from file for password does not work
René Neumann via dovecot <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:06:24 +0200
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Ok, classic PEBKAC: I forgot to restart dovecot while setting this up. Only when I enabled debugging, it started to work (due to me restarting the server). The permissions did not seem to make a difference, I set them nevertheless to avoid possible problems down the road. Thanks, René Am 19.04.26 um 17:14 schrieb Aki Tuomi via dovecot: > 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]