From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 25 13: 4:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 999251521D; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:04:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83B021CD437; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:04:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:04:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Vadim Chekan Cc: Patrick Bihan-Faou , Sean-Paul Rees , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: imap, postfix, freebsd In-Reply-To: <3814311F.1A8A1E92@gc.lviv.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Vadim Chekan wrote: > I tryed to run it but there are a problem. New Cyrus uses PAM. But > non-root user hasn't got permissions to athentificate user by pam_unix. > I don't know is this a feature or bug. It's possible to use Curus's > users database. This is because the passwords themselves are stored in /etc/master.passwd, which is only readable by root (this is a generic problem with pam_unix on systems with a "shadow" password file). Your solution is either to make this file readable by the uid or gid which runs cyrus, or to use another authentication mechanism. Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message