[Dovecot] shared authentication

[Kevin]

whats the recommended way to share a user auth info between dovecot and 
postfix?  sasldb seems like it could work but nobody really seems to 
like using the giant mass that is sasl.  i also cant find any 
information on actually getting dovecot to use sasl past the configure 
options.  i looked at timo's patch for postfix to use dovecot-auth but 
it doesnt apply correctly on the 2.1 branch.  so what are people using 
to share passwords between the two without using the system passwd?