[Dovecot] dovecot: lda(foo): Error: User foo doesn't have home dir set, disabling duplicate database

[Christian Hoffmann]

Hello Pascal,

but I didn't configure a userdb with driver=ldap. There is only one 
userdb with driver=static and I assumed, that every user gets the same 
uid, gid and a valid home directory.

Are there some circumstances, that different passdb-drivers treated in 
special relation to userdb-drivers? Like, one have to configure a 
userdb-driver=ldap if one uses a passdb-driver=ldap. But the 
passdb-driver=pam looks into userdb-driver=static. That is the part, I 
do not understand.

Greetings
Christian

Am 31.05.2014 19:12, schrieb Pascal Volk:
> On 05/31/2014 03:04 PM Christian Hoffmann wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I have a small problem with dovecot installed on ubuntu-13.10. I use
>> dovcot as LDA with a LDAP-passdb and a pam-passdb. The userdb is static.
>> A mail to LDAP-user 'foo' is delivered with the error-message
>>
>> dovecot: lda(foo): Error: User foo doesn't have home dir set, disabling
>> duplicate database
> Your LDAP based userdb doesn't return the home directory for user foo.
> The LDAP lookup should return the home directory. See
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/UserDatabase
>
> And even for virtual users you should have a home directory for each
> virtual user. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home
>
>> A mail to the pam-user 'bar' will deliverd without this error. But both
>> users should work with the static-userdb. Where is my mistake?
> Because the userdb returns the home directory of the system user bar.
>
>
> Regards,
> Pascal