[Dovecot] user database clarification

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 18:52, Jared wrote:
> >> I still am not clear on why PAM is not supported for the user 
> >> database.
> >
> > Because PAM only provides a way to ask "does user X have password Y?".
> > It doesn't provide a way to ask user's UID, GID or home directory.
> 
> I'm way out of my league here, but I thought getting UID, GID, etc, was 
> the job of nsswitch.

That too. If you want to use nsswitch, use "passwd" as user database.