[Dovecot] user database clarification

[Jared]

On Wednesday, Jul 23, 2003, at 11:07 US/Eastern, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 17:52, Jared wrote:
>> I still am not clear on why PAM is not supported for the user 
>> database.
>
> Because PAM only provides a way to ask "does user X have password Y?".
> It doesn't provide a way to ask user's UID, GID or home directory.

I'm way out of my league here, but I thought getting UID, GID, etc, was 
the job of nsswitch.

>
>> I'm in an environment that has users both in local flat files
>> (/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow) AND in an LDAP database.
>>
>> Is it possible for this set up to work with dovecot?  (both local and
>> ldap users have imap/pop?)
>
> No fallbacking currently. I'll probably add it though. Fallbacking btw.
> is possible only with plaintext authentication, but I guess that's what
> everyone uses anyway..

I'd definitely like to see this.  I've got a bunch of crufty old and 
oddball accounts that I'd prefer not to put in LDAP.

Thanks,
-jared