[Dovecot] login_user & first_valid_uid

Alexander Shikoff minotaur at crete.org.ua
Sun Oct 30 19:20:16 EET 2005


On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 05:47:47PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 15:56 +0300, Alexander Shikoff wrote:
> > Oct 29 15:51:25 orion dovecot: Logins with login process UID 101 (user elnino) not permitted (see login_user in config file).
> 
> This means that you're trying to log in as "elnino" user which has the
> same UID as what you've set to login_user in dovecot.conf. That isn't
> allowed.

Thanks. I understood my mistake. FYI: user elnino can access it's mailbox 
regardless of this warning:
Oct 29 14:16:25 orion dovecot: Logins with login process UID 101 (user elnino) not permitted (see login_user in config file).
Oct 29 14:16:25 orion dovecot: auth(default): Growing pool 'plain_auth_request' with: 1024
Oct 29 14:16:25 orion dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<elnino>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.3.1, lip=192.168.5.23
Oct 29 14:16:25 orion dovecot: pop3(elnino): Logout. top=0/0, retr=1/ del=1/1, size=3245

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