dovecot - Jan 2005 - Problem using passwd-file authentication: does not read UID, GID

There seems to be a problem when setting the default authentication method
to passwd-file when they use the same file (which they frequently do):

 	auth default {
 		mechanisms = plain
 		userdb = passwd-file /passwd
 		passdb = passwd-file /passwd
 		...
 	}

The log files show

 	dovecot: Jan 11 14:41:40 Info: Dovecot v1.0-test60 starting up
 	dovecot: Jan 11 14:41:49 Info: auth(default): userdb(test,127.0.0.1): uid=0
gid=0 home= mail 	dovecot: Jan 11 14:41:49 Error: Logins with UID 0 not
permitted (user test)
 	dovecot: Jan 11 14:41:49 Info: imap-login: Internal login failure: test
[127.0.0.1]

When userdb-passwd-file.c::passwd_file_init() is called, it compares the
userdb passwd-file to the passdb passwd-file.  If they are the same, it resets
the time stamp to force a re-read of the password database during the next
look-up.  However, I believe it also needs to reset the userdb_pwf->userdb
flag to TRUE or else it won't pick up the UID and GID and will use 0
instead:

 	/* resync */
 	userdb_pwf->userdb = TRUE; /* Was FALSE in v1.0-test60 */
 	userdb_pwf->stamp = 0;

Joseph Tam <tam at math.ubc.ca>

On 12.1.2005, at 03:28, Joseph Tam wrote:
> When userdb-passwd-file.c::passwd_file_init() is called, it compares 
> the
> userdb passwd-file to the passdb passwd-file.  If they are the same, 
> it resets
> the time stamp to force a re-read of the password database during the 
> next
> look-up.  However, I believe it also needs to reset the 
> userdb_pwf->userdb
> flag to TRUE or else it won't pick up the UID and GID and will use 0 
> instead:
Fixed, thanks.
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