dovecot - Dec 2002 - passwd-file access

Using passwd-file authentication I run into some problems..
This is my passwd file:

user:0cc175b9c0f1b6a831c399e269772661[34]:6660:6660:0:/some/mail/directory/user:0:::

My MUA tells me after enter my user/pass that the server disconnected, 
OK.  So I netcat into the imap server, and issue an "C: LOGIN user a"
in
which case I get the error "Fatal: USER environment missing".  So I 
search for this in the src and find in 'src/imap/main.c' on line 30 it 
checks for the environment variable USER.. which I assume it can't find 
because it's not an actual system user, it's a ficticious user in a 
passwd-file.

Any ideas?

-- 
Jesse Peterson
erage at softhome.net

On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 03:50, Jesse Peterson wrote:
> Using passwd-file authentication I run into some problems..
> This is my passwd file:
> 
>
user:0cc175b9c0f1b6a831c399e269772661[34]:6660:6660:0:/some/mail/directory/user:0:::
> 
> My MUA tells me after enter my user/pass that the server disconnected, 
> OK.  So I netcat into the imap server, and issue an "C: LOGIN user
a" in
> which case I get the error "Fatal: USER environment missing".  So
I
> search for this in the src and find in 'src/imap/main.c' on line 30
it
> checks for the environment variable USER.. which I assume it can't find
> because it's not an actual system user, it's a ficticious user in a
> passwd-file.
So it seems, fixed.