If you want things done as a disabled user use su with the -c switch. For example to simulate a cgi request from outside I do:
su www-data -c /cgi-bin/getnewimages.cgi the www-data user is the user that runs scripts. .. El 05/02/2017 05:58, "Christian Kivalo" <ml+dove...@valo.at> escribió: > > > Am 5. Februar 2017 06:55:34 MEZ schrieb drbob...@yahoo.com: > >Hi, everyone, > >1. As advised in Debugging Authentication, I turned on auth_debug and > >auth_debug_passwords, and now in the mail log I get an additional > >message: > >dovecot: auth: passwd(xxx,xxx,<40AjQMFHSLVLGJAC>): invalid password > >field '*' > >Of course neither the password I tried nor the actual password was '*'. > >That's what's in /etc/passwd, but dovecot isn't just using that, is it? > The '*' in passwd password field stands for login disabled. See man 5 > passwd or http://www.manpages.info/freebsd/passwd.5.html > > > >2. In the new debug log, I get: > >dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: > >/usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth > >dovecot: auth: Debug: Read auth token secret from > >/var/run/dovecot/auth-token-secret.dat > >dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=3183) > >dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 > >session=RFp0lMFHHotLGJAC lip=xxx rip=xxx lport=110 > >rport=35614 > >dovecot: auth: Debug: client passdb out: CONT 1 > >dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: CONT<hidden> > >dovecot: auth: Debug: passwd(xxx,xxx,<RFp0lMFHHotLGJAC>): lookup > >dovecot: auth: Debug: client passdb out: FAIL 1 user=xxx > >user_disabled > > > >So it's something with passdb? > > > >3. In TestPop3Installation I can't get past the "Check that it's > >allowing remote logins" section. telnet gives me an error: > > > >-ERR [AUTH] Authentication failed. > > > > > >which I expect, because I have telnet turned off. Does that mean I > >can't use plaintext authentication? > This is probably because the users login is disabled. > > In one oft your provided log outputs you are trying to login as user > 'www'. Why? The webserver user has the login normaly disabled. > > -- > Christian Kivalo > > >Thanks, > >Bob > > > >On Saturday, February 4, 2017 8:37 AM, "drbob...@yahoo.com" > ><drbob...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > >And thanks for the link to that Troubleshooting section. I didn't know > >that was there and will take a look at it now. > > >
