[Dovecot] Plain password not authenticating

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 12:13 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 14 Jan 2006 23:29, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 22:21 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > Now dovecot starts and I can telnet localhost 143, but I'm still
> > > getting NO authentication.
> >
> > Set auth_verbose=yes and auth_debug=yes, and paste what the log file
> > says when logging in?
> >
> > > Should I post my config file now?
> >
> > Wouldn't hurt either :)
> 
> OK - all the info I can gather:
> dovecot: Jan 15 11:47:21 Info: auth(default): 
> passwd-file(anne,127.0.0.1): 
> unknown user

This says that it didn't see anne in the passwd-file.

> /etc/imap.passwd
> anne:{plain}******:1000:1000::/home/anne

But it's correctly in here. I can't think of anything else than that
it's reading wrong file somehow or that the imap.passwd file contains
something else besides what you just pasted. Did you check with for
example vi that there are no strange control characters at the beginning
of the line?

BTW. I also just added to CVS that it says this at startup if debug is
enabled:

auth(default): passwd-file /etc/imap.passwd: Read 1 users

That'll also be helpful when figuring out problems like these..
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