[Dovecot] Unable to authenticate system users in Dovecot 1.0rc25

[Malaney J. Hill]

On 3/6/07, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>
> On 4.3.2007, at 0.11, Malaney J. Hill wrote:
>
> > I recently installed dovecot1.0rc25 on my RHEL4 system running
> > postfix and wish to use both virtual and system users. Virtuals
> > work fine, but I get authentication failures with system users.
> > I've tried pam, passwd and shadow.
> ..
> > auth default:
> >   user: nobody
>
> You're running dovecot-auth as nobody. I'm guessing nobody doesn't
> have access to /etc/shadow.


Correct, nobody does not have access to /etc/shadow and never will.  How do
I resolve this?
Do I have to create a separate password file for my system users?  Or is
there a better alternative.


MJH
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