[dovecot] Re: Shadow password file

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 19:25, Jaime Medrano wrote:
> ¿Is there any way to make dovecot to take the passwords from a file with
> a shadow password format?
> 
> I've tried with the passwd-file auth plugin, but it complains that users
> have uid=0

There's two separate authentication parts. "passdb" where dovecot gets
passwords and "userdb" where uid/gid/homedir/etc are stored.

You should be able to use shadow file with passwd-file for passdb, but
you have to use something else for userdb. "static" might be enough for
you.