dovecot - Jun 2003 - Dovecot configuration with passwd-file

I have tried to configure dovecot to use passwd-file authentication and I
havent been able to. I changed the following in the dovecot.conf file (I
want to have all the mailboxes in one directory):

default_mail_env = maildir:/opt/mail/%u
auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap
auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap
auth_verbose = yes

It gives me the following error (I hoped it would be more verbose than
this):

Internal login failure: f_rojas [192.168.10.4].

passwd.imap exists, the user and password are ok What am I missing?

Fawzib Rojas

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 21:00, Spectron International, Inc.
wrote:
> default_mail_env = maildir:/opt/mail/%u
> auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap
> auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap
> auth_verbose = yes
> 
> It gives me the following error (I hoped it would be more verbose than
> this):
> 
> Internal login failure: f_rojas [192.168.10.4].
Hmm. It should have been more verbose. "Internal login failure" anyway
means that the password check went ok, but IMAP process couldn't be
started for some reason.
> passwd.imap exists, the user and password are ok What am I missing?
Did you also add UID, GID and home directories there? UID and GID are a
must there, I'm not sure if home directory was.