dovecot - Aug 2010 - Running auth as root

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.

This is on Ubuntu server 10.04.1 and Dovecot 1.2.9.

TIA, Egbert Jan

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).