[Dovecot] hanging imap... and users getting other users' emails!

[Josh Burley]

Ah, I misunderstood the comment, then.

Yes, nsswitch is set up to use ldap. Do you think that switching from 
pam to ldap might help with this problem?

It's a Fedora Core 3 machine.


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 10:05 -0800, Josh Burley wrote:
> 
>>Good question, eh? I thought the same when I went back and read the 
>>comments about the UID.
>>
>>But, it *was* working. For a few weeks (we did the upgrade about three 
>>weeks ago). Only about 30 users in /etc/passwd, but over 300 in LDAP.
> 
> 
> "passwd" actually doesn't mean /etc/passwd, but using getpwnam()
> function. That then uses /etc/nsswitch.conf and whatever configuration
> to figure out where to look up the users, which may end up using LDAP as
> well. Sounds like your system is configured this way, and sounds like
> the bug is in the LDAP NSS module.
> 
> What OS/distibution is this?
>