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2006 May 11
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comment on dovecot documentation on PAM
...read up about PAM while doing all the configuration for my new webmail service. I found that the writing in the dovecot documentation about PAM to be rather misleading in at least one aspect. The documentation I am specifically referring to is at http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication?highlight=%28authentication%29 and in the comments found in the dovecot.conf file. In this documentation PAM is referred to as a password database. It appears that is not correct, rather PAM is something that uses a password database. Since the default for "auth_passdb" given in dovecot.conf was "pam" I...