[Dovecot] rc7 crashing under heavy load
Chris Wakelin
c.d.wakelin at reading.ac.uk
Wed Sep 6 12:29:50 EEST 2006
See http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile
We've just got:
<username>:x:<uid>:<gid>::<homedir>
and the standard:
passdb pam {
}
userdb passwd-file {
args = /somewhere/etc/userdb
}
It might be worth looking at http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers as well.
Best Wishes,
Chris
billl at inetmsg.com wrote:
> Chris, I am new to Dovecot and this list, and struggled this weekend to
> get Dovegot to authenticate the username against a "passwd-file" and
> using pam to authenticate the passwords. I was wondering if you could
> tell me what the format of the "passwd-file" should look like. I want
> to the username to be user at domain, and tried stripping the domain part
> for username/password authentication against pam, but that hasn't worked
> for me, so I thought I would use a "passwd-file" like your doing. Also,
> what does your dovecot.conf section look like for using a "passwd-file"
> and pam?
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide!
>
> Bill
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