[Dovecot] Authenticating with /etc/passwd

[June Qiu]

Solved. Thanks, Timo!

--- On Thu, 5/21/09, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> From: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Authenticating with /etc/passwd
> To: "June Qiu" <qljune at yahoo.com>
> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 11:31 AM
> 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!
> ..
> > 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.
> 
>