On 9.4.2007, at 22.21, Stewart Dean wrote:
I am using the base AIX Unix authentication with NIS. There is a base /etc/password file (though the passwords are in a funny, IBM- peculiar file, /etc/security/passed) of just 18 lines...since NIS is in use, the last line is the standard for-anything-you-don't- find-here-try NIS indicator:+::0:0:::When I start up DC, I get these error massages:Apr 9 14:44:59 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /etc/passwd: User root has invalid UID 0 Apr 9 14:44:59 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /etc/passwd: User kmem has invalid GID 0 Apr 9 14:44:59 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /etc/passwd: User ipsec has invalid GID 0 Apr 9 14:44:59 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /etc/passwd: User + has invalid UID 0
So is this intentional that you're using passwd-file instead of passwd? passwd-file isn't really meant to be used to read the standard /etc/passwd and so it gives these kind of warnings at startup. If you're using this as passdb, it'll probably allow user "+" to log in with an empty password.
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