28 May
2005
28 May
'05
3:39 p.m.
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 08:45 -0600, Adam Barrett wrote:
I have the following set in my conf
disable_plaintext_auth = no auth =default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd /etc/passwd auth_passdb = shadow
it has been a long time since I studied up on shadow and passwd, but to my recall if you have in your passwd file something to the effect of
name:*:123456
that the * means you are using shadow for your passdb, right?
I guess. Dovecot doesn't parse passwd or shadow files directly anyway, it just uses some libc functions to do it.
Are you sure you want to use shadow anyway? PAM is much more commonly used nowadays.
Anyway, if there are login problems set auth_verbose = yes and look at the log file. It tells you what went wrong.