[Dovecot] Plain password not authenticating

[Willem Riede]

On 01/14/2006 09:44:43 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 12 Jan 2006 21:57, Chris Wakelin wrote:
> > I've got something like
> >
> > auth default {
> >    mechanisms = plain login
> >    passdb = passwd-file [
> >      args = /some/path/passwd
> >    }
> >    userdb = passwd-file {
> >      args = /some/path/passwd
> >    }
> > }
> >
> Well, I have 1.0alpha5 installed, and have matched these lines in  
> thedovecot.conf file.

I hope you didn't copy them exactly, as there is a '[' on the passdb line  
where a '{' should have been. FWIW, I have no '=' signs after passdb or userdb  
in my (working, but with PAM) configuration.

Regards, Willem Riede.