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

[Malaney J. Hill]

On 3/7/07, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
Thanks Timo, that did the trick!

MJH
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