[Dovecot] Dovecot on FreeBSD 4.9 - "Invalid Password Field"

[Andrew Boothman]

Jamie Heckford wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Jamie!

> I am attempting to get dovecot up and running on FreeBSD 4.9..... Tried
> with the default config file and my own one (below) but when trying to
> login I get the following:
> 
> Feb 10 17:59:53 cobain dovecot-auth: passwd(jamie): invalid password
> field '*'
> 
> It seems like it is trying to read straight from /etc/passwd? I thought
> it called getpw().

I'm running Dovecot on FreeBSD 4.9 no problem.

I've not done anything special to the authentication options in the 
config file so perhaps you have done something funky to them?

Are you sure that your 'jamie' account actually has a password set?

Andrew