Good day, Curtis,
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On 10-Jul-06 at 15:34 Curtis Maloney wrote:
Fellow Dovecot'ers,
I've -almost- got Dovecot completely functional, and I will add that it works just fine for non-authenticated POP3.
The problem begins when I try to use authentication for same against
Bruce Lane wrote: the system's /etc/passwd section. This is the error message that comes up in /var/log/maillog
Wait... why have you configured it to use PAM, when you say you want it to auth against /etc/passwd? If you really _do_ want to use /etc/passwd, set your userdb to 'passwd', and your passwd to either 'passwd' or 'shadow', whichever suits your system.
I'm confused... I thought use of PAM was required, in this context, to authenticate against /etc/passwd...?
Also, after some reading on the subject, using PAM seemed to add the promise of future flexibility if I decided to add other authentication methods.
I will try setting it up as you describe, and see where it leads me. Thanks much.-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy, Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m "If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?"