Hi there, I've currently compiled and running dovecot version 0.99.10 on my FreeBSD 4.8 system from the ports and am having problems with authenticating clients with the imap/pop3 service. The error message i get is: Jul 11 19:26:18 dev dovecot: Dovecot starting up Jul 11 19:27:23 dev dovecot-auth: passwd(james): invalid password field '*' Jul 11 19:27:23 dev imap-login: Disconnected [10.0.0.1] On the client system I am using Outlook Express 6 and the password dialog box keeps on comming up. Im sure its somthing to do with my conf file not being configured right, here are the main bits: default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%u client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle auth = default auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = passwd auth_user = dovecot-auth auth_username_chars If its somthing simple please point me in the right direction as I feel increadbly dumb because im sure its something to do with the passwd file but just carnt get pass the last hurdle! Many thanks in advanced. James. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20030711/ee8f1f36/attachment-0001.html>
On Friday, Jul 11, 2003, at 22:48 Europe/Helsinki, James Read wrote:> Jul 11 19:27:23 dev dovecot-auth: passwd(james): invalid password > field '*' > auth_passdb = passwd > auth_user = dovecot-authdovecot-auth process needs to be running as root to get access to passwords in passwd file. So use auth_user = root.