[Dovecot] dovecot and tcpwrappers

[Kees Lemmens]

Hi Timo,others,

Adding login_access_sockets = tcpwrap wasn't enough : I also had to 
recompile dovecot 2.0.13 with the --with-libwrap option. Then linking 
failed as it didn't link with libnsl.so but that was easily fixed.

However, if I try to connect now with tcpwrap switched on I still have a 
problem. It doesn't connect and shows the following error message :

tail /var/log/dovecot.log
Jul 27 15:05:42 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: 
/opt64/dovecot-2.0.13/lib/dovecot/auth
Jul 27 15:05:44 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=20071)
Jul 27 15:05:44 imap-login: Error: connect(tcpwrap) failed: No such file or 
directory

Any idea what I might have forgotten ?

Thanks a lot for the response !

regards,
Kees Lemmens.

On Wednesday, July 27, 2011, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 14:16 +0200, Kees Lemmens wrote:
> > Since yesterday I have dovecot 2.0.13. But in version 2.0.13 it seems
> > that starting using inetd doesn't work anymore : I only get a strange
> 
> > error message if I try to connect using telnet :
> Yeah, won't work.
> 
> > Is dovecot indeed ignoring hosts.allow/deny ?
> 
> Yes. But you can enable tcpwrappers with:
> 
> login_access_sockets = tcpwrap
> 
> > BTW: I tried to post on the mailinglist but it seems I can't access
> > them it the moment, altough I did subscribe and login. Is there
> > anything wrong ?
> 
> Nothing's wrong as far as I know..


-- 
With best regards,
Kees Lemmens.
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