[Dovecot] Authentication woes.

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Feb 10 03:58:34 EET 2009


On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 09:24 -0800, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> passwd-file(raanders at aesoft-sbcs.com,66.193.34.88): no passwd file: 
> username_format=raanders /var/mail/vhosts/aesoft-sbcs.com/passwd

It's trying to open a file named
"username_format=raanders /var/mail/vhosts/aesoft-sbcs.com/passwd" which
of course doesn't exist.

> # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf
..
>   passdb:
>     driver: passwd-file
>     args: username_format=%n /var/mail/vhosts/%d/passwd

username_format setting here required Dovecot v1.1. With v1.0 I think
you can simply not add it and it would work.

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