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.