[Dovecot] 1.0-test56

John Peacock jpeacock at rowman.com
Mon Dec 6 18:48:22 EET 2004


Timo Sirainen wrote:

> This happens because you are using a passdb that doesn't work with 
> anything else than plaintext (pam, passwd, shadow, etc.). Dovecot was 
> actually supposed to be checking this and failing at startup but looks 
> like I had broken the check at some point and instead it now just crashes.

That makes complete sense, now that you mention it.  If I want to use a 
non-plaintext login, I'll have to use the SSL layer then (which I'll 
start testing now that I know this).

Thanks

John

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