[Dovecot] Problems finding information on passwd-file

David A. Desrosiers hacker at gnu-designs.com
Thu Oct 30 13:37:18 EET 2003


	I've recently converted over to dovecot to uw-imap, and am having a
heck of a time trying to find actual docs that describe how to set up
virtual users properly without using ldap or posgres.. Basically I need to
know what goes in auth_userdb and auth_passdb for a system with *NO* local
user accounts in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. I will only create mbox files
for these users in /var/mail/%u and alternately a home directory where they
can store their own mail folders under /home/%u.

	How can I do this, given the current dovecot codebase? I've googled
for a few hours, talked to many people on irc, and checked the mailing lists
(of what I could find) related to this, and found nothing whatsoever
describing how to achive this. Dovecot apparently supports "virtual users",
but I can't find any supporting documentation that describes exactly HOW to
set that up.

	Thanks in advance.

d.



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