[dovecot] Re: still problems getting it to work

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 22:52, Korbinian Riedhammer wrote:
> hi all,
> after havong some other trouble with my server i finally managed to
> recompile and install dovecot. installed it in /usr/local (the dafault).
> below u see a dump of my config file. i want to use "normal" shadow
> passwords for authentification. i adjustet the pathes from /usr/ to
> /usr/local/.

Path changing isn't needed btw. Dovecot uses automatically the paths
given with --prefix if they're not set in config file.

>  when i login with outlook express 4 example i get the error:
> unsupported authentification method. (my system isn't configured for shadow
> md5). in the error log i get the the /dev/urandom is needed but not found,
> well but i have it :)
> maybe a chroot setting?

Also chrooting wouldn't work anyway with shadow authentication since it
can't open /etc/shadow. I also just tried to see if opening shadow
database before chrooting would work, but it doesn't, probably because
it wants to reopen the file if it has changed.