[Dovecot] Authentication error with corrections

Petar Bogdanovic
Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:19:55 -0000

Bruce Lane wrote:
> I tried setting up Dovecot's auth default section as you described,
> with both authdb and userdb set to 'passwd.' It let the
authenticated
> session start on the POP side, but I got consistent authentication
> failures on the client side that the passwords didn't match.
>
> I don't have any more time to mess with it this morning, but I will
> make it a point to try 'shadow' when I get in this evening.
It's
> possible that NetBSD wants to work that way.

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$ uname -rs
NetBSD 3.0
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$ egrep -A 1 -B 2 'passwd \{' dovecot.conf.ssl
   # In many systems nowadays this uses Name Service Switch, which is
   # configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
   passdb passwd {
   }
--
   # In many systems nowadays this uses Name Service Switch, which is
   # configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
   userdb passwd {
   }
***********************************************

Without problems.


Kind regards,

Petar