[Dovecot] Can't take user info from an alternate file

[Timo Sirainen]

On 12.8.2013, at 22.11, dave at 661.org wrote:

> I'm positive I did everything right to get Dovecot to take usernames and passwords from /etc/dovecot/users, but it still goes for /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.  The format of /etc/dovecot/users is "alice:{PLAIN}plaintextpassword" Here's my "doveconf -n":

What does Dovecot log when you're logging in?