[Dovecot] Problems finding information on passwd-file

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 01:37:18PM -0500, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> 
> 	I've recently converted over to dovecot to uw-imap, and am having a
> heck of a time trying to find actual docs that describe how to set up
> virtual users properly without using ldap or posgres.. Basically I need to
> know what goes in auth_userdb and auth_passdb for a system with *NO* local
> user accounts in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. I will only create mbox files
> for these users in /var/mail/%u and alternately a home directory where they
> can store their own mail folders under /home/%u.

auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/imap.passwd
auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/imap.passwd

Then the imap.passwd is in the same format as normal /etc/passwd file, but
there's a few extra fields. doc/auth.txt explains them.