Umm, I did create other users, using the "adduser"- command. Here is my /home-directory:
max:/home# ls -al total 28drwxrwsr-x 7 root staff 4096 Feb 2 18:39 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Apr 28 2003 .. drwxr-sr-x 5 bosse bosse 4096 May 27 2003 bosse drwxr-xr-x 2 exim exim 4096 Apr 18 2002 exim drwxr-xr-x 3 ironhead ironhead 4096 Apr 26 2003 ironhead drwxr-xr-x 3 lotta lotta 4096 Feb 2 19:08 lotta drwxr-xr-x 2 lve lve 4096 Dec 5 2002 lve and the lotta-user: max:/home/lotta# ls -al total 28 drwxr-xr-x 3 lotta lotta 4096 Feb 2 19:08 . drwxrwsr-x 7 root staff 4096 Feb 2 18:39 .. -rw------- 1 lotta lotta 171 Feb 3 20:03 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 lotta lotta 174 Feb 2 18:37 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 lotta lotta 556 Feb 2 18:37 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 lotta lotta 1123 Feb 2 18:37 .bashrc drws--S--- 5 lotta lotta 4096 Feb 2 18:40 Maildir and her Maildir-directory: max:/home/lotta/Maildir# ls -al total 20 drws--S--- 5 lotta lotta 4096 Feb 2 18:40 . drwxr-xr-x 3 lotta lotta 4096 Feb 2 19:08 .. drwxrwxrwx 2 lotta mail 4096 Feb 2 18:40 cur drwxrwxrwx 2 lotta mail 4096 Feb 2 18:40 new drwxrwxrwx 2 lotta mail 4096 Feb 2 18:40 tmp But as you see there are now folders in her directory like: .Trash .Sent etc Could this be the problem? /Bo > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Fr�n: Andreas Aardal Hanssen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skickat: den 5 februari 2004 13:47 > Till: Binc IMAP General > �mne: Re: SV: [binc] new user unable to login > > > On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Bo Mellberg wrote: > >The run files are: > >./usr/sbin/bincimapd > >./usr/sbin/bincimap-up > > I was rather thinking about the files called "run" in for example > /etc/opt/bincimap/service, or the xinetd files in > /etc/opt/bincimap/xinetd. > > But your problem lies elsewhere. > > >You are on to something here, because when I do the "find" > >the user "lotta" doesn't show: > >Perhaps her mailboxes hasn't been created after all? > >Thanks for all your help! > > Worse - bosse and ironhead may be the only users on your > system at all! If you created the other user, you also have > to create that user's home area. Binc IMAP can't help here > with logging or verbose error messages. > > Basically Binc can create Maildir, but it can't create /home/<user> - > that's your job as sysadmin. :-) > > Andy > > -- > Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg > Author of Binc IMAP | "It is better not to do something > http://www.bincimap.org/ | than to do it poorly." > > >
