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

[Timo Sirainen]

On 7.3.2007, at 5.41, Malaney J. Hill wrote:

> > auth default:
> >   user: nobody
>
> You're running dovecot-auth as nobody. I'm guessing nobody doesn't
> have access to /etc/shadow.
>
> Correct, nobody does not have access to /etc/shadow and never  
> will.  How do I resolve this?
> Do I have to create a separate password file for my system users?   
> Or is there a better alternative.

Usually people are just running dovecot-auth as root, which is also  
the default (user = root inside auth {}). Or you could create some  
doveauth user which has "shadow" as the primary group.

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