Re: [Dovecot] Authenticating with /etc/passwd

21 May 2009


      Solved. Thanks, Timo!
--- On Thu, 5/21/09, Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi wrote:
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I am trying to do authentication with /etc/passwd and
something is not working right for me. Pls help!
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May 21 11:14:07 Info: auth(default):
From: Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Authenticating with /etc/passwd
To: "June Qiu" qljune@yahoo.com
Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 11:31 AM
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 20:16 -0700,
June Qiu wrote:
passwd(test1,127.0.0.1): CRYPT(password) != 'x'
/etc/passwd doesn't have passwords nowadays. They're in
/etc/shadow.
Either user passdb shadow or passdb pam.