[Dovecot] Authenticate user thru PAM

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 10:50 +0800, Adrian Mak wrote:
> my mailsystem is using postfix and virtual mailbox which stored in mysql db.
> SMTP AUTH is using PAM, pam-mysql to authenticate against a mysql db.
> 
> I installed dovecot 0.99-14. In the dovecot example config file
> it mentioned that auth_passdb can check against  thru PAM but auth_userdb didn't

Yes, because PAM doesn't know anything about home directories and such.

> Does it mean that auth_userdb should use other means e.g. /etc/passwd,

Right.

> shadow, 

No. Shadow file only contains passwords.

> vpopmail, etc and in my case it is mysql. Right ?

Right.

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