From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:36:05 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Included comment about passwd+BSD requiring roots.
X-Git-Tag: 1.1.alpha1~4491
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cb46e6ee48928ad63fd286cd10b602826d25aff4;p=thirdparty%2Fdovecot%2Fcore.git

Included comment about passwd+BSD requiring roots.

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branch : HEAD
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diff --git a/dovecot-example.conf b/dovecot-example.conf
index 07b47d92dc..a00311255b 100644
--- a/dovecot-example.conf
+++ b/dovecot-example.conf
@@ -396,7 +396,9 @@ auth default {
 
   # User to use for the process. This user needs access to only user and
   # password databases, nothing else. Only shadow and pam authentication
-  # requires roots, so use something else if possible.
+  # requires roots, so use something else if possible. Note that passwd
+  # authentication with BSDs internally accesses shadow files, which also
+  # requires roots.
   auth_user = root
 
   # Directory where to chroot the process. Most authentication backends don't