[Dovecot] Running auth as root

Hi,

I seem to be forced to run the auth proces as root because I want to use pam for local users. My gut feeling says that this is Not Good. Is there another way? For the virtual users 'vmail' is good enough because that user may access the MySQL database.

This is on Ubuntu server 10.04.1 and Dovecot 1.2.9.

TIA, Egbert Jan