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+Shadow
+======
+
+Works at least with Linux and Solaris, but nowadays <PAM>
+[PasswordDatabase.PAM.txt] is usually preferred to this.
+
+This uses auth-worker processes:
+
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+passdb {
+  driver = shadow
+}
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+By default the auth-worker processes are run as "dovecot" user though, which
+normally doesn't have access to '/etc/shadow'. If this is a problem, you can
+fix it with:
+
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+service auth-worker {
+  # This should be enough:
+  group = shadow
+  # If not, just give full root permissions:
+  #user = root
+}
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+If there are only a few users and you're using '/etc/shadow' file, there's
+really no need to use auth-workers. You can disable them with:
+
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+passdb {
+  driver = shadow
+  args = blocking=no
+}
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+(This file was created from the wiki on 2019-06-19 12:42)