[Dovecot] Plain password not authenticating

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 14:44 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 12 Jan 2006 21:57, Chris Wakelin wrote:
> > I've got something like
> >
> > auth default {
> >    mechanisms = plain login
> >    passdb = passwd-file [
> >      args = /some/path/passwd
> >    }
> >    userdb = passwd-file {
> >      args = /some/path/passwd
> >    }
> > }
> >
> Well, I have 1.0alpha5 installed, and have matched these lines in the 
> dovecot.conf file.  Now I got
> Error...... unknown setting: passdb
> 
> Looking at the examples I took out the '=' and it seemed to pass that 
> line, but then
> 
> Error..... unknown setting: userdb
> 
> Taking out the '=' this time just leads to
> 
> Error.... expecting '='

Are you sure you're running it with 1.0alpha5? Since this error looks
like it's 0.99.x that's parsing the config file. Check with
dovecot --version.

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