<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Timo Sirainen</b> <<a href="mailto:tss@iki.fi">tss@iki.fi</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 4.3.2007, at 0.11, Malaney J. Hill wrote:<br><br>> I recently installed dovecot1.0rc25 on my RHEL4 system running<br>> postfix and wish to use both virtual and system users. Virtuals<br>> work fine, but I get authentication failures with system users.
<br>> I've tried pam, passwd and shadow.<br>..<br>> auth default:<br>> user: nobody<br><br>You're running dovecot-auth as nobody. I'm guessing nobody doesn't<br>have access to /etc/shadow.</blockquote>
<div><br>Correct, nobody does not have access to /etc/shadow and never will. How do I resolve this?<br>
Do I have to create a separate password file for my system users? Or is there a better alternative. </div><br><br>MJH</div>