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

[Udo Rader]

thanks Timo,

I only saw your reply today and it indeed provides a workaround for this
bug.

thanks

Udo

Am Sonntag, den 07.08.2005, 16:41 +0300 schrieb Timo Sirainen:
> 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.
>