[Dovecot] Dovecot doesn't read users and passwords from config files
Marco Fioretti
mfioretti at nexaima.net
Sun Aug 3 01:18:34 EEST 2008
Greetings,
I am setting up Dovecot 1.0.15 on my home Fedora Core 8 pc ONLY to
access my mail archives across several mail clients. No access from
the internet is possible or needed here.
I cannot log in with any client, the login always fails. The reason,
as I understand, is that when dovecot starts it doesn't read any user
name from the userdb file, so when I try to login it doesn't recognize
my name and so doesn't even try to verify the password:
maillog excerpt:
Aug 3 00:06:11 polaris dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.15 starting up
Aug 3 00:06:11 polaris dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /etc/local_dovecot_passwords: Read 0 users
Aug 3 00:06:11 polaris dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /etc/local_dovecot_users: Read 0 users
Aug 3 00:06:12 polaris dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=5150
Aug 3 00:06:12 polaris dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=5148
Aug 3 00:06:12 polaris dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=5149
Aug 3 00:06:26 polaris dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH#0111#011PLAIN#011service=IMAP#011secured#011lip=127.0.0.1#011rip=127.0.0.1#011resp=AG1hcmNvAGdpZ2V0dG8=
Aug 3 00:06:26 polaris dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(marco,127.0.0.1): lookup: user=marco file=/etc/local_dovecot_passwords
Aug 3 00:06:26 polaris dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(marco,127.0.0.1): unknown user
Aug 3 00:06:27 polaris dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL#0111#011user=marco
Aug 3 00:06:27 polaris dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: user=<marco>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
the dovecot.conf file, purged by comments, is below. What am I
missing?
TIA,
Marco
##############################################################
protocols = imap
listen = localhost:143
mail_location = maildir:/home/marco/.MAIL/home_imap/
protocol imap {
}
protocol pop3 {
}
protocol lda {
postmaster_address = postmaster at example.com
}
auth_debug = yes
auth_debug_passwords = yes
auth default {
mechanisms = plain login
passdb passwd-file {
args = /etc/local_dovecot_passwords
}
userdb passwd-file {
args = /etc/local_dovecot_users
}
user = root
}
dict {
}
plugin {
}
###################################################
the local_dovecot_passwords and local_dovecot_users files are
identical, and have permission 644:
marco:{PLAIN}thepassword:500:500::/home/marco/.MAIL/home_imap/
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