[Dovecot] Plain password auth issues

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 16:46 -0500, nospam wrote:
> Have the following entries in dovecot.conf
> 
> 
> auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot-passdb
> auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot-passdb
..
> dovecot: Feb 19 16:41:30 Error: Logins with UID 0 not permitted (user
> echo)

This most likely means that you have only username and password set in
the passwd files. You'll need to set uid and gid for each user also,
just like in real passwd files. Or alternatively you could use
auth_userdb = static.

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