Re: [Dovecot] Authentication woes, passwd standard install

2014-03-28 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, medicineme wrote: I have two users working fine. Tried to add a third and it refuses to accept log on details. I've stripped everything back to default config, and still only the first two users are accepted! Can't understand i

Re: [Dovecot] Authentication woes - Couldn't drop privileges: Mail access not allowed for root

2010-08-23 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 23.08.10 15:37, Timo Sirainen wrote: > Yeah, that's how I thought it should work too. Fixed: > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/83f98d61bea2 I just installed Dovecot from Mercurial on the server running the dsync backup script. I can confirm that with your changes the SSH key file can be

Re: [Dovecot] Authentication woes - Couldn't drop privileges: Mail access not allowed for root

2010-08-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 11:10 +0200, Ralph Seichter wrote: > I made a small mistake during setup and had one of the id_dsa files > owned by root instead of $user. This was deliberate, because the sync > script is run by root and I thought that the SSH key should thus be > owned by root aswell. Yea

Re: [Dovecot] Authentication woes - Couldn't drop privileges: Mail access not allowed for root

2010-08-21 Thread Ralph Seichter
Hi Timo, thanks again for pointing out the missing userdb configuration entry yesterday. Now that both Dovecot 2.0.0 servers are running fine, I use the following command to backup mail data from serverA to serverB in a shell script running on serverB, looping over user names: /usr/local/doveco

Re: [Dovecot] Authentication woes - Couldn't drop privileges: Mail access not allowed for root

2010-08-20 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 20.08.10 20:36, Timo Sirainen wrote: > I guess you should add: > > userdb { > args = scheme=crypt /usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/passwd > driver = passwd-file > } I think you meant "args = /usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/passwd", without "scheme=crypt". Adding the userdb setting to

Re: [Dovecot] Authentication woes - Couldn't drop privileges: Mail access not allowed for root

2010-08-20 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 20:07 +0200, Ralph Seichter wrote: > dovecot: imap(foo): Error: user foo: Couldn't drop privileges: Mail access > not allowed for root > passdb { > args = scheme=crypt /usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/passwd > driver = passwd-file > } You don't have a userdb

Re: [Dovecot] Authentication woes.

2009-02-09 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 09:24 -0800, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > passwd-file(raand...@aesoft-sbcs.com,66.193.34.88): no passwd file: > username_format=raanders /var/mail/vhosts/aesoft-sbcs.com/passwd It's trying to open a file named "username_format=raanders /var/mail/vhosts/aesoft-sbcs.com/passw