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

[Douglas M. Stanley]

----- "Timo Sirainen" <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> 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..

Huh, how odd...well the reason was it's in a VM with only 128mb total
memory, so I set it lower. Should have known it was something silly like
that that I changed from my original config and didn't think it would
matter!

Thanks so much!

Doug