[Dovecot] Dovecot configuration with passwd-file

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Jun 14 18:33:28 EEST 2003


On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 21:00, Spectron International, Inc. wrote:
> default_mail_env = maildir:/opt/mail/%u
> auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap
> auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap
> auth_verbose = yes
> 
> It gives me the following error (I hoped it would be more verbose than
> this):
> 
> Internal login failure: f_rojas [192.168.10.4].

Hmm. It should have been more verbose. "Internal login failure" anyway
means that the password check went ok, but IMAP process couldn't be
started for some reason.

> passwd.imap exists, the user and password are ok What am I missing?

Did you also add UID, GID and home directories there? UID and GID are a
must there, I'm not sure if home directory was.



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