Solved. Thanks, Timo!

--- On Thu, 5/21/09, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:

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:

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I am trying to do authentication with /etc/passwd and something is not working right for me. Pls help! .. May 21 11:14:07 Info: auth(default): 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.