NAME

       doveadm-auth - Test authentication for a user

SYNOPSIS

       doveadm [-Dv] auth [-a auth_socket_path] [-x auth_info] user [password]

DESCRIPTION

       The auth command can be used to test the authentication for the given user.

OPTIONS

       Global doveadm(1) options:

       -D     Enables verbosity and debug messages.

       -v     Enables verbosity, including progress counter.

       Command specific options:

       -a auth_socket_path
              This option is used to specify an absolute path to an alternative UNIX domain socket.

              By default doveadm(1) will use the socket /var/run/dovecot/auth-client.  The socket may be located
              in    another    directory,    when    the    default   base_dir   setting   was   overridden   in
              /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf.

       -x auth_info
              auth_info specifies additional conditions for the auth command.  The auth_info option  string  has
              to  be given as name=value pair.  For multiple conditions the -x option could be supplied multiple
              times.
              Possible names for the auth_info are:

              service
                     The service for which the authentication lookup should be tested.  The  value  may  be  the
                     name of a service, commonly used with Dovecot.  For example: imap, pop3 or smtp.

              lip    The local IP address (server) for the test.

              rip    The remote IP address (client) for the test.

              lport  The local port, e.g. 143

              rport  The remote port, e.g. 24567

ARGUMENTS

       user   The  user's login name.  Depending on the configuration, the login name may be for example jane or
              john@example.com.

       password
              Optionally the user's password.  doveadm(1) will prompt for the password, if none was given.

EXAMPLE

       This example demonstrates an imap authentication test for user john, assuming the user is connected  from
       the host with the IP address 192.0.2.143.

       doveadm auth -x service=imap -x rip=192.0.2.143 john johns_password
       passdb: john auth succeeded
       extra fields:
         user=john

REPORTING BUGS

       Report   bugs,  including  doveconf  -n  output,  to  the  Dovecot  Mailing  List  <dovecot@dovecot.org>.
       Information about reporting bugs is available at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html

SEE ALSO

       doveadm(1), doveconf(1)

Dovecot v2.2                                       2010-06-09                                    DOVEADM-AUTH(1)