[Dovecot] Setting up a local shared mailbox

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Sep 13 05:47:10 EEST 2003


On Friday, Sep 12, 2003, at 21:42 Europe/Helsinki, Bob Hall wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:54:56AM -0500, Peter Clark wrote:
>> auth_passdb = pam
>> auth_user = root
>
> I thought you didn't need to be root to authenticate with PAM? If you
> can do this as dovecot-auth, it will be more secure.

I think PAM always requires roots.



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