[Dovecot] Authentication problems

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Dec 19 22:13:04 EET 2004


On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 16:53 +0000, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> Hi. I aim to provide pop3 and imap services to a few users. At the moment I
> only offer imap for squirrelmail users. However, I can't login successfully for
> pop3. It appears to be trying to auth against PAM, rather than directly using 
> the passwd-file.
..
> auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot.passwd.conf

You need to have auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot.passwd.conf as
well.

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