[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2.x passwd and shadow auth w/ PAM

[Timo Sirainen]

On 11.5.2011, at 1.07, Steven King wrote:

> I'm trying to get authentication to work without PAM and just use the standard shadow and passwd files.
> 
> auth default {
> 
> userdb passwd {
> }
> 
> passdb shadow {
> }
> 
> }

That's not dovecot -n output.

> This seems to be valid code to use /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.

Maybe..

> My linux distro is using Salted MD5. Though Dovecot keeps telling me that authentication failed. It doesn't give me any error messages regarding the config.

Set auth_debug_passwords=yes. And show the exact log messages. And exact dovecot -n output.