Re: [Dovecot] Authentication and Startup/Shutdown error.

On 27.8.2004, at 17:27, Andrew Lietzow wrote:

auth_userdb = passwd: /etc/passwd auth_passdb = passwd: /etc/passwd

It should have been either "passwd" or "passwd-file /etc/passwd". No ':' in any case. You should have seen this error message in log file:

dovecot-auth: Aug 28 20:48:31 Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'passwd:'