[Dovecot] Running auth as root

[Egbert Jan van den Bussche]

Op 31-8-2010 20:04, Timo Sirainen schreef:
> On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 14:15 +0200, Egbert Jan van den Bussche wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I seem to be forced to run the auth proces as root because I want to use
>> pam for local users. My gut feeling says that this is Not Good. Is there
>> another way?
>> For the virtual users 'vmail' is good enough because that user may
>> access the MySQL database.
>
> If your /etc/shadow is readable by "shadow" group, you can use
> auth_user=something that uses shadow group as the primary group (maybe
> create a new "doveauth" user).
>

TNX Timo. I have added vmail to the shadow group. Now it may read 
/etc/shadow.

Egbert Jan