[Dovecot] PostgreSQL user database

[Marco Herrn]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 02:10:18AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 10.12.2004, at 23:50, Marco Herrn wrote:
> 
> >>>But I came to another problem when doing this. Is it the case that
> >>>dovecot expects uids and gids always as numbers? I only store the
> >>>human readable names of them, but dovecot complains with:
> >>
> >>If they are names, how should dovecot translate them to numbers?
> >
> >Sorry for my little knowledge about that, but I thought that the names
> >should be enough. At least exim is capable of using user and group
> >names as well as uids and gids. Do you know where the difference is in
> >the way exim and dovecot handle this? I would think that exim just
> >looks into the passwd file for this information (this is only an
> >assumption). Is this not possible in dovecot?
> 
> Well, after replying, I started thinking if I wanted Dovecot to convert 
> uid/gid names to numbers. I couldn't decide yet. It could be useful, 
> but it could be just bloat. Does anyone have a ready patch to do it? 
> Maybe then it would be easier :)

I would really like to create a patch, but I can't write in C. And I
think a java or python version isn't really helpful. ;-)
Have you already decided whether you want to include such a feature?

Regards
Marco



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