Subject: Re: Dovecot auth problems?
To: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
From: Scott Ellis <scotte@warped.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/14/2006 08:33:00
David Brownlee wrote:
> 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.
> 

I've never run not-SSL, so that doesn't do it here. :-) You enabled SSL 
by making an SSL listener, or adding ssl_disable=no, or ???

	ScottE