[Dovecot] alternate passwd/shadow

Thorsten Vollmer thorsten at thvo.de
Wed Nov 12 02:14:17 EET 2008


On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 13:33 -0800, Jorg B. wrote:
> I'm using an alternate password/shadow combo to authenticate IMAP users
> and I can't seen to get it working...
> 
> I'm using:
> 
> passdb shadow {
>  args = /etc/dovecot/shadow
> }
> 
> Can somebody please give me some hints on how to get this to work....

'passdb shadow' supports system users only. Use 'passdb passwd-file'
instead.

Regards,
Thorsten

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