dovecot - Feb 2004 - Dovecot on FreeBSD 4.9 - "Invalid Password Field"

Hi,

I am attempting to get dovecot up and running on FreeBSD 4.9..... Tried
with the default config file and my own one (below) but when trying to
login I get the following:

Feb 10 17:59:53 cobain dovecot-auth: passwd(jamie): invalid password
field '*'

It seems like it is trying to read straight from /etc/passwd? I thought
it called getpw().

Is this a common error and could anyone shed some light on how to fix
it?

Thanks :)

Jamie 

-- dovecot.conf


## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file
base_dir = /var/dovecot/
protocols = imap
imap_listen = 192.168.120.7
login_dir = /var/dovecot/login
login_chroot = yes
ssl_disable = yes

## IMAP login process

login = imap
login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_user = dovecot
login_process_size = 16

##
## Mail processes
##

# Maximum number of running mail processes. When this limit is reached,
# new users aren't allowed to log in.
max_mail_processes = 300
verbose_proctitle = yes
first_valid_uid = 5000
last_valid_uid = 8000
first_valid_gid = 5000
last_valid_gid = 5100
default_mail_env = maildir:/u/home/%u
client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle
mail_save_crlf = yes
maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes
mbox_locks = fcntl

## IMAP process

imap_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
imap_process_size = 256

## Authentication processes

auth = default
auth_mechanisms = plain
auth_userdb = passwd
auth_passdb = passwd
auth_user = root
auth_username_chars
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@
auth_verbose = yes

Jamie Heckford wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Jamie!
> I am attempting to get dovecot up and running on FreeBSD 4.9..... Tried
> with the default config file and my own one (below) but when trying to
> login I get the following:
> 
> Feb 10 17:59:53 cobain dovecot-auth: passwd(jamie): invalid password
> field '*'
> 
> It seems like it is trying to read straight from /etc/passwd? I thought
> it called getpw().
I'm running Dovecot on FreeBSD 4.9 no problem.

I've not done anything special to the authentication options in the 
config file so perhaps you have done something funky to them?

Are you sure that your 'jamie' account actually has a password set?

Andrew