Hi,

I am attempting to get dovecot up and running on FreeBSD 4.9..... Tried with the default config file and my own one (below) but when trying to login I get the following:

Feb 10 17:59:53 cobain dovecot-auth: passwd(jamie): invalid password field '*'

It seems like it is trying to read straight from /etc/passwd? I thought it called getpw().

Is this a common error and could anyone shed some light on how to fix it?

Thanks :)

Jamie

-- dovecot.conf

## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file base_dir = /var/dovecot/ protocols = imap imap_listen = 192.168.120.7 login_dir = /var/dovecot/login login_chroot = yes ssl_disable = yes

## IMAP login process

login = imap login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user = dovecot login_process_size = 16

## ## Mail processes ##

# Maximum number of running mail processes. When this limit is reached, # new users aren't allowed to log in. max_mail_processes = 300 verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_uid = 5000 last_valid_uid = 8000 first_valid_gid = 5000 last_valid_gid = 5100 default_mail_env = maildir:/u/home/%u client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle mail_save_crlf = yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes mbox_locks = fcntl

## IMAP process

imap_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap imap_process_size = 256

## Authentication processes

auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = passwd auth_user = root auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ auth_verbose = yes