Hi,
I just upgraded my system from FC1 to Test 3, and it broke my dovecot installation. When I looked in the system log, it was immediately obvious. The default authentication in dovecot has changed from passwd authentication to be postgres.
What is the reason for this? The best thing that dovecot has going for it is that it requires no setup, compared to cyrus-imap. Now that this default behaviour has changed, it changes this.
Is this intentional? Or has it just been transfered from upstream? In which case, I think Fedora should have passwd authentication by default.
Any thoughts on this?
Phil
Phil Anderson wrote:
Hi,
I just upgraded my system from FC1 to Test 3, and it broke my dovecot installation. When I looked in the system log, it was immediately obvious. The default authentication in dovecot has changed from passwd authentication to be postgres.
What is the reason for this? The best thing that dovecot has going for it is that it requires no setup, compared to cyrus-imap. Now that this default behaviour has changed, it changes this.
Is this intentional? Or has it just been transfered from upstream? In which case, I think Fedora should have passwd authentication by default.
Any thoughts on this?
Phil
Good catch! In reviewing the revision history it appears this came from upstream. I am guessing this is totally not what we want shipping in Fedora as postgresql based authentication is far less common and more difficult to use than passwd. I will see if I can fix this... already very close to absolute development freeze. =(
Warren
Warren Togami wrote:
Good catch! In reviewing the revision history it appears this came from upstream. I am guessing this is totally not what we want shipping in Fedora as postgresql based authentication is far less common and more difficult to use than passwd. I will see if I can fix this... already very close to absolute development freeze. =(
Bad news, I missed the development freeze when I built this package, so unfortunately FC2 will ship with a non-functional by default dovecot. The FC2 update that fixes a few bugs and has a functional default config is in the pipe. I may clean it up a bit more before releasing it later.
Warren
Warren Togami wrote:
Warren Togami wrote:
Good catch! In reviewing the revision history it appears this came from upstream. I am guessing this is totally not what we want shipping in Fedora as postgresql based authentication is far less common and more difficult to use than passwd. I will see if I can fix this... already very close to absolute development freeze. =(
Bad news, I missed the development freeze when I built this package, so unfortunately FC2 will ship with a non-functional by default dovecot. The FC2 update that fixes a few bugs and has a functional default config is in the pipe. I may clean it up a bit more before releasing it later.
Hmm... the package magically appeared in rawhide. I'm not complaining. =)
Warren
On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 21:01, Phil Anderson wrote:
I just upgraded my system from FC1 to Test 3, and it broke my dovecot installation. When I looked in the system log, it was immediately obvious. The default authentication in dovecot has changed from passwd authentication to be postgres.
Reported last week: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122212