Migration issue

[Kishore Potnuru]

Thank you for the response.

So, both password files (master and regular user credentials) have the same
contents in this scenario, correct?

-Kishore

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 11:42 PM Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Aug 2020, Kishore Potnuru wrote:
>
> > ===============
> > Jul 28 11:14:23 auth: Fatal: Master passdb can't have pass=yes if there
> are
> > no passdbs
> > Jul 28 11:14:23 master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed,
> > throttling
> > ===============
> >
> > after the above error, I have commented "pass=yes" in production1 (old
> > server) server, then I see the below error.
> >
> > ================
> > Jul 28 11:17:10 auth: Fatal: No passdbs specified in configuration file.
> > PLAIN mechanism needs one
> > Jul 28 11:17:10 master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed,
> > throttling
> > ===============
> >
> > =========================================
> > My old server dovecot.conf (production1):
> > =========================================
> >
> > passdb {
> >        args = /etc/dovecot/passwd
> >        driver = passwd-file
> >        master = yes
> >        pass = yes
> >        }
>
> My interpretation of your error messages is you need 2 sets of credentials:
> regular users and master users.  You've only supplied master passwords.
> You'll need
>
>         # Contains master users credentials
>         passdb {
>                 args = /etc/dovecot/master-passwd
>                 driver = passwd-file
>                 master = yes
>                 pass = yes
>         }
>
>         # Contains regular user credentials
>         passdb {
>                 args = /etc/dovecot/passwd
>                 driver = passwd-file
>         }
>
> Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>
>
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