[Dovecot] Authenticating with /etc/passwd

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 20:16 -0700, June Qiu wrote:
> I am trying to do authentication with /etc/passwd and something is not working right for me. Pls help!
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> 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.

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