[Dovecot] Denying user won't work as expected

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 09:50 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote:

> passdb {
>    driver = ldap
>    deny = yes
> 
>    # File contains a list of usernames, one per line
>    args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/deny-users
> }
> 
> I have tested writting one user (me) in the 
> /usr/local/etc/dovecot/deny-users

You have driver=ldap there, which means that LDAP tries to read the
deny-users file as its configuration file.

> and the result is the login is denied for ALL users ...

I'm surprised that it even starts up..

If replacing driver=ldap with driver=passwd-file doesn't help, show your
actual dovecot -n output.