Hello,

Am trying to create a master user on dovecot. However, it throws dovecot: auth: plain(?,127.0.0.1): Username character disallowed by auth_username_chars: 0x2a (username: loginuser*master) ".

#telnet localhost 143

Trying 127.0.0.1...

Connected to localhost.

Escape character is '^]'.

• OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN 1 login loginuser*master mypassword

1 NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed.

# log output dovecot: auth: plain(?,127.0.0.1): Username character disallowed by auth_username_chars: 0x64 (username: master)

# cat passwd.master

master:{SHA}LORtG60Uqg2bPSlOB8PW2cLI0TE=

#And here's the output of my dovecot -n

# 2.0.16: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE amd64 auth_master_user_separator = * disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private }

passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/passwd.master driver = passwd-file master = yes } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { client_limit = 6000 } service imap { process_limit = 2048 vsz_limit = 1256 M } service pop3 { process_limit = 2048 }

userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = UID%u-%v }

I don't know what am doing wrong. Any help would be welcome. Thanks

Thanks & regards, David Okwii, Mobile(default): +256-791-040-262

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