Subject: Re: Dovecot auth problems?
To: Scott Ellis <scotte@warped.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/14/2006 14:51:22
On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Scott Ellis wrote:

> Mark Thomas wrote:
>> I just ran 'make update' on dovecot which takes it to
>> 'dovecot-1.0rc6nb2' and now I get this in '/var/log/maillog' any ideas
>> how to fix this? I haven't changed the doveot.config, did some looking
>> around but didn't find anything.
>> 
>> Aug 13 10:50:43 freda dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /etc/passwd:
>> User root has invalid UID 0
>> Aug 13 10:50:43 freda dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /etc/passwd:
>> User toor has invalid UID 0
>> Aug 13 10:50:43 freda dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down
>> Aug 13 10:50:43 freda dovecot: child 870 (login) killed with signal 11
>> Aug 13 10:50:43 freda dovecot: child 23038 (login) killed with signal 11
>> Aug 13 10:50:43 freda dovecot: child 11024 (login) killed with signal 11
>
> I have the same issue with rc6 and with the nightly snapshot from August 
> 12th.  Looks like some changes were made to the auth signalling recently (at 
> least since rc2, which is what I have running at present) that may be 
> responsible.
>
> No solution yet, but I posted the same issue on the dovecot mailing list, so 
> hopefully Timo will have a clue and a solution. :-)

 	I hit this and enabled ssl, after which all is working again.

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