[Dovecot] User mapping via pam

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 13:53 -0400, Flannery, Andrew wrote:
> I'm trying to change the PAM_USER within a pam module, and observed that
> dovecot 0.99 does not support this. I then looked at 1.x and found:
..
>         /* FIXME: this doesn't actually work since we're in the child
> 
>            process.. */
..
> however it appeared to me that the auth process was passing this
> username to the parent in its response.
..
> Also, is this behavior dependant on me setting blocking=yes for
> "passdb
> pam" in dovecot.conf? (for this test It was set)

Yes. It works only with blocking=yes. I hadn't thought about that
before. Updated http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/PAM
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