[Dovecot] Plain password not authenticating

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 15 Jan 2006 13:37, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
Hi, Timo.  I just got in and it's late, so I'll check that in the 
morning.

> 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..

If I can't find anything wrong I will delete that file and re-create it, 
just in case.  Could it be a permissions problem?  What perms setting 
do you recommend?

Anne