[Dovecot] Problem with sasl auth with postfix...

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 17:50 -0400, Douglas M. Stanley wrote:
> > > > Mar 13 19:16:30 mailserver dovecot: auth(default): User doesn't
> > exist: postfix
> > 
> > Does your Postfix installation actually work? What user do you see
> > running the Postfix processes?
> 
> Yep, works fine. The user running the postfix processes is postfix:
> 
> root      4219     1  0 19:28 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/postfix/master
> postfix   4302  4219  0 19:48 ?        00:00:00 qmgr -l -t fifo -u

Oh. I've heard this before! You've set auth_process_size to 64. Why?
It's too low and causes NSS plugin loading to fail silently and return
"User doesn't exist" error. Wonder if I could detect this somehow..

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