[Dovecot] Login with firstname.lastname instead of loginname

Ralf Hildebrandt Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de
Wed May 16 15:12:42 EEST 2007


* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:

> What passdb are you using?

auth default:
  master_user_separator: *
  verbose: yes
passdb:
  driver: passwd-file
  args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.masterusers
  pass: yes
  master: yes
passdb:
  driver: shadow
passdb:
  driver: pam
userdb:
  driver: passwd
userdb:
  driver: passwd

> Dovecot supports aliases if you make the
> passdb return "user=the-real-user" field.
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields

Hmm, does this mean I add another dummy database containing:

ralf.hildebrandt:user=rhilde
ralf.hildebrandt at charite.de:user=rhilde

for all users? How?

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