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Why does it access /etc/shadow?
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Tue 30 December 2014

While updating the SELinux policy for the Courier IMAP daemon, I noticed that it (well, the authdaemon that is part of Courier) wanted to access /etc/shadow, which is of course a big no-no. It doesn't take long to know that this is through the PAM support (more specifically, pam …