[Dovecot] Authentication and Startup/Shutdown error.

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Aug 28 20:49:44 EEST 2004


On 27.8.2004, at 17:27, Andrew Lietzow wrote:

> auth_userdb = passwd: /etc/passwd
> auth_passdb = passwd: /etc/passwd

It should have been either "passwd" or "passwd-file /etc/passwd". No 
':' in any case. You should have seen this error message in log file:

dovecot-auth: Aug 28 20:48:31 Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'passwd:'
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