On 23.2.2012, at 19.31, Keith Christian wrote:
Hello, I'm new to dovecot, and, due to having an older version of an OS installed on a test server, I'll be using an older version of dovecot (dovecot-1.0-1.2) to provide IMAP services.
I think Dovecot v2.x works mostly on the same OSes as v1.x.
On this wiki page (http://wiki.dovecot.org/BasicConfiguration?highlight=%28passwd.dovecot%29)
There are instructions for creating a separate dovecot password file:
echo "$USER:{PLAIN}password" > passwd.dovecot sudo mv passwd.dovecot /etc
So, it appears that two password files will be needed, one for dovecot and one for regular system logins.
Only if you want to.
Is there a setting in dovecot.conf which will authenticate IMAP using /etc/password and /etc/shadow, without a separate dovecot password file?
Use passdb pam + userdb passwd (not passwd-file). See password + user databases under http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication