On Friday, Jul 11, 2003, at 22:48 Europe/Helsinki, James Read wrote: > Jul 11 19:27:23 dev dovecot-auth: passwd(james): invalid password > field '*' > auth_passdb = passwd > auth_user = dovecot-auth dovecot-auth process needs to be running as root to get access to passwords in passwd file. So use auth_user = root.