dovecot - Aug 2006 - Authentication Failure

Probably a newbie question.... sorry.

Did a deluser a week or so ago, but didn't remove any of the users 
files.  I re-enabled the user via useradd with the -u and set the uid 
the same as it was before.  Now when I try and log the user into his 
mail via Thunderbird, /var/log/messages reports

dovecot(pam_unix)[17259]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 
tty= ruser= rhost=  user=sean

Any help is appreciated.  Thanks.

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 10:22 -0400, William J. Dzieciolowski
wrote:
> Did a deluser a week or so ago, but didn't remove any of the users 
> files.  I re-enabled the user via useradd with the -u and set the uid 
> the same as it was before.  Now when I try and log the user into his 
> mail via Thunderbird, /var/log/messages reports
> 
> dovecot(pam_unix)[17259]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 
> tty= ruser= rhost=  user=sean
I'd guess the password is wrong, or pam_unix does some other check that
makes it fail the authentication. Anyway the problem is completely in
PAM's side and not Dovecot's.

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