[dovecot] Re: still problems getting it to work

Timo Sirainen
Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:38:34 -0000

On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 22:52, Korbinian Riedhammer wrote:
> hi all,
> after havong some other trouble with my server i finally managed to
> recompile and install dovecot. installed it in /usr/local (the dafault).
> below u see a dump of my config file. i want to use "normal"
shadow
> passwords for authentification. i adjustet the pathes from /usr/ to
> /usr/local/. when i login with outlook express 4 example i get the error:
> unsupported authentification method. (my system isn't configured for
shadow
> md5). in the error log i get the the /dev/urandom is needed but not found,
> well but i have it :)
> maybe a chroot setting?

You're right, it's the auth_chroot which breaks it. I fixed it in CVS
now.  But your auth process is still running as root, which makes
chrooting pretty useless, so just disable it.