<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/7/07, <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 7.3.2007, at 5.41, Malaney J. Hill wrote:<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.
<br>><br>> Correct, nobody does not have access to /etc/shadow and never<br>> will. How do I resolve this?<br>> Do I have to create a separate password file for my system users?<br>> Or is there a better alternative.
<br><br>Usually people are just running dovecot-auth as root, which is also<br>the default (user = root inside auth {}). Or you could create some<br>doveauth user which has "shadow" as the primary group.<br><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>Thanks Timo, that did the trick!<br><br>MJH<br>