[Dovecot] login w/ IMAP & LDAP

[Bob Hall]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:18:56PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thursday, Aug 14, 2003, at 06:25 Europe/Helsinki, Bob Hall wrote:
> 
> >>Now try to login, and it should crash. Then type "bt" and copy&paste 
> >>the
> >>output and mail it to me. http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/bugreport.html
> >>shows what the gdb output should look like.
> >
> >It doesn't crash, it hangs.
> 
> Your logs before showed that it crashes at least sometimes. The 
> backtrace you sent was done before the crash, so it didn't help.. Did 
> you give the "continue" command to gdb? Without that the process is 
> just stuck in gdb.

No, I didn't know about continue. dovecot-auth now bleats appropriately 
and goes mildly to the slaughter. The new backtrace is on its way to you.
 
> >Maybe someone can tell me; is there ever any reason to log onto dovecot
> >as dovecot? Should I make the dovecot user's LDAP entry available to
> >dovecot?
> 
> There's no need to ever login as dovecot. I'll probably just add extra 
> checks to make sure dovecot user isn't ever used for anything else than 
> executing the login processes :)

Dang. Everytime I try to do something, you add a check to prevent it. 
Are you trying to save me from myself?

Bob Hall