On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 19:25, Jaime Medrano wrote:

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¿Is there any way to make dovecot to take the passwords from a file with a shadow password format?

I've tried with the passwd-file auth plugin, but it complains that users have uid=0

There's two separate authentication parts. "passdb" where dovecot gets passwords and "userdb" where uid/gid/homedir/etc are stored.

You should be able to use shadow file with passwd-file for passdb, but you have to use something else for userdb. "static" might be enough for you.

The thing is I've got a server where imap users are the same of local users, but with different passwords. I've used for userdb, the passwd-file module with the passwd file, and the passwd module and both seem to work. However, when I use passwd-file for passdb with the shadow file where the imap passwords are stored I can see in the logs an error saying that every user has uid=0.