[Dovecot] /etc/passwd authentication anomalies

[Stewart Dean]

I am using the base AIX Unix authentication with NIS.  There is a base 
/etc/password file (though the passwords are in a funny, IBM-peculiar 
file, /etc/security/passed) of just 18 lines...since NIS is in use, the 
last line is the standard for-anything-you-don't-find-here-try NIS 
indicator:
+::0:0:::

When I start up DC, I get these error massages:

Apr  9 14:44:59 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /etc/passwd: User root has invalid UID 0
Apr  9 14:44:59 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /etc/passwd: User kmem has invalid GID 0
Apr  9 14:44:59 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /etc/passwd: User ipsec has invalid GID 0
Apr  9 14:44:59 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /etc/passwd: User + has invalid UID 0

This is a niggle, but is there something I should do differently, or is 
DC just annoyed at what IBM has done with /etc/passwd?


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Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources 
Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York  12504  
sdean at bard.edu  voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035