[Dovecot] RC1 broken - Authentication Failed

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 22:21 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 11:57 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> > OK - I just tried it again and here's what I got. Switching back to
> > beta 9 fixes it so whatever you changed it started in rc1.
> 
> > dovecot: Jul 01 11:50:59 Error: auth(default): passwd-file /etc/vmail/shadow.ambrynet.com: User pat has invalid 
> > GID -1
> 
> Well, I guess it's these. -1 really is invalid and I think it
> practically means that the process would get root's GID, which really
> isn't a good idea.
> 
> I'll add some extra checks to make sure this can't be done with other
> userdbs either..

Hmm. Actually with me it gives this:

dovecot: Jul 01 22:36:11 Fatal: setegid(4294967295) failed: Invalid
argument

Also looking more closely your log it looks like you're not using those
files as userdb either. So, fixed:

http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2006-July/006017.html
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