[Dovecot] Unable to Login to Dovecot.

[Mateusz Kijowski]

Dnia czwartek, 2 października 2008, Rajiv Gore napisał:

[...]

> Lisiting of Dovecot.log
> dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:52 Error: auth(default): userdb(Rajiv,127.0.0.1):
> user not found from userdb
> Lisitng of info.dovecot
> dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:26 Info: Dovecot v1.1.3 starting up
> dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:26 Info: auth(default): passwd-file
> /etc/passwd.dovecot: Read 1 users

[...]

> dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:52 Info: auth(default): passwd-file(Rajiv,127.0.0.1):
> lookup: user=Rajiv file=/etc/passwd.dovecot
> dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:52 Info: auth(default): client out:
> OK    1       user=Rajiv

passdb has verified user's password

> dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:52 Info: auth(default): master in:
> REQUEST        1       19924   1
> dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:52 Info: auth(default): passwd(Rajiv,127.0.0.1):
> lookup dovecot: Oct 02 12:43:52 Info: auth(default):
> passwd(Rajiv,127.0.0.1): unknown user

userdb doesn't know about this user

>   passdb:
>     driver: passwd-file
>     args: /etc/passwd.dovecot
>   userdb:
>     driver: passwd

the passwd userdb looks up user info in /etc/passwd, and it seems that you 
don't have user Rajiv in /etc/passwd. 

You might want to read:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase

and perhaps:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile

--
Mateusz
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