DAve, I think you've found a bug in vchkpw.
For some reason, it wants to create the user's directory if it doesn't already exist. This could be related to updating the lastauth file in the user's directory. Disabling AUTH_LOGGING on that system will help, but you'll still have code trying to create the directory.
Go into login_virtual_user() and get rid of everything from the comment, "If thier directory path is empty make them a new one" to right before "#ifdef CLEAR_PASS".
Let me know if that works, and I'll make changes to the release version. That code could probably be permanently removed -- the user's directory is created by vdelivermail when necessary. vchkpw doesn't need to be doing it.
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