[Dovecot] PRoblems using password database

Bas van den Dikkenberg bas at giskit.nl
Thu Sep 14 10:03:19 EEST 2006


My password file looks this :

jaap at aap.nl:$1$bQm0BeAc$0gyjz/JkuYmKIaeGAjJ8b0

What kind of  mechanisms must i use?
In dovecot 0.9 it was default but when I use play I get the error uid 0
not allowd



-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Morgan Nightbear [mailto:morgan at nightbear.net] 
Verzonden: woensdag, september 2006 20:59
Aan: Bas van den Dikkenberg
Onderwerp: Re: [Dovecot] PRoblems using password database


On Sep 13, 2006, at 2:27 PM, Bas van den Dikkenberg wrote:

> Hi every body,
>
> I am upgrading form 0.9 to 1.0.rc7
>
> In the old version I had the following entry's:
>
> auth_userdb = passwd-file /mailstore/users
> auth_passdb = passwd-file /mailstore/passwd
> auth=default
>
> and can't get working I ekeep anding up with the following error :
>
> -ERR Authentication failed.

Check out http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig
However, want you want now is something like:

auth default {
    passdb passwd-file {
    args = /mailstore/passwd
    }
    userdb ...

-----Morgan




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