"unknown user - trying the next userdb" Info in log
Stephan Bosch
stephan at rename-it.nl
Wed Jan 30 00:24:19 EET 2019
Op 29/01/2019 om 01:51 schreef James Brown via dovecot:
> I’ve set up a new mail server. Auth-worker is giving me this error all
> the time:
>
> auth-worker(11160): Info: passwd(sales at bordo.com.au
> <mailto:sales at bordo.com.au>,10.0.0.54,<YSFoAYHAGoLAqAEo>): unknown
> user - trying the next userdb
>
That is not an error. As the "Info: " prefix indicates, this is an
innocuous informational message.
Regards,
Stephan.
> Next line is from imap-login with successful login.
>
> Using MySQL as user database.
>
> Auth-sql.comf.ext is:
>
> passdb {
> driver = sql
>
> # Path for SQL configuration file, see
> example-config/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
> args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
> }
>
> # "prefetch" user database means that the passdb already provided the
> # needed information and there's no need to do a separate userdb lookup.
> # <doc/wiki/UserDatabase.Prefetch.txt>
> userdb {
> driver = prefetch
> }
>
> userdb {
> driver = sql
> args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
> }
>
> # If you don't have any user-specific settings, you can avoid the
> user_query
> # by using userdb static instead of userdb sql, for example:
> # <doc/wiki/UserDatabase.Static.txt>
> #userdb {
> #driver = static
> #args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail/%u
> #}
>
> Any ideas why it is gives me this error before logging in? Where
> should I look?
>
> Thanks,
>
> James.
>
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