[Dovecot] "logins with UID ... are not permitted"

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Aug 7 16:41:32 EEST 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 12:55 +0200, Udo Rader wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 12:45 +0200, Udo Rader wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > I've just upgraded our dovecot installation to the most recent debian
> > package (0.99.20050712) and now I'm running into some weird problems.
> > Virtual (LDAP based) users cannot login anymore, the logfile shows this:
> > 
> > -------CUT-------
> > dovecot: Aug 02 12:34:25 Error: Logins with UID 200 (user some.user) not
> > permitted (see first_valid_uid in config file)
> > -------CUT-------
> > 
> > yet /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf has this for the mentioned parameter:
> > 
> > first_valid_uid = 1
> > first_valid_gid = 1
> > 
> > "regular" users can login however ...
> 
> another thing: the login only fails when using IMAP, POP3 works without
> problems ...

Sounds like this problem:

http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-July/008299.html

You could move the first_valid_uid/gid before any protocol { .. } to fix
it. It'll also be fixed in next stable snapshot.

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