[Dovecot] Using dovecot auth with Postfix

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 18:17 -0500, Kim Culhan wrote:
>     client {
>       path = /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth-master
>       mode = 0660

This isn't -master socket, so the path is a bit misleading.

And either set mode = 0666 or add a line with "user = postfix".

> dovecot: Dec 31 17:04:32 Error: child 3536 (auth) returned error 89
> dovecot: Dec 31 17:25:34 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down
> dovecot: Dec 31 17:25:34 Error: auth(default_with_listener): Unknown
> userdb driver 'pam' (typo, or Dovecot was built without support for
> it? Check with dovecot --build-options)
> 
> Before modifying the setup for this auth function, pam authentication was
> working fine.

PAM is only a "passdb", not an "userdb". So I'd think you wanted to set
passdb pam, userdb passwd (or whatever, since postfix doesn't use it at
all).

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