[Dovecot] Unable to authenticate system users in Dovecot 1.0rc25

[Timo Sirainen]

On 4.3.2007, at 0.11, Malaney J. Hill wrote:

> I recently installed dovecot1.0rc25 on my RHEL4 system running  
> postfix and wish to use both virtual and system users. Virtuals  
> work fine, but I get authentication failures with system users.  
> I've tried pam, passwd and shadow.
..
> auth default:
>   user: nobody

You're running dovecot-auth as nobody. I'm guessing nobody doesn't  
have access to /etc/shadow.

>   userdb:
>     driver: sql
>     args: /etc/dovecot/sql.conf
>   userdb:
>     driver: passwd
>   userdb:
>     driver: prefetch

Prefetch is pretty pointless as the last userdb. If you've setup the  
prefetch to work with passdb sql, then it should be first one in the  
list.

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