[Dovecot] CentOS 5 + selinux

[Timo Sirainen]

On 6.12.2010, at 14.07, Marcelo Roccasalva wrote:

> passdb {
>  driver = pam
> }
..
> I straced the process and it efectively tries to open /etc/shadow. I
> don't want to disable selinux but I'm not happy letting dovecot read
> my /etc/shadow. Is there a guide to selinux and dovecot?

So, how do you expect Dovecot to authenticate with PAM, if it can't read /etc/shadow?