[Dovecot] Passwordless Login Auth

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, JL wrote:

> I have Dovecot 1.0.5 running imaps successfully with Postfix on Ubuntu. 
> Authorization is by SASL.  Currently, my mail client (mutt) requests a 
> password to access my folders.
>
> I would like to configure Dovecot so that a user logged into the 
> localhost (i.e., already authenticated) does not receive the password 
> prompt.  Remote logins should of course demand the authentication, but 
> if I'm logged into the server via SSH, for example, I'd like to be able 
> to run mutt without the password prompt.  Is this a viable proposition?

Does your IMAP client support just talking to the IMAP server on a 
pipe?  Alpine/PINE does, and that's what I use.

Just tell it to talk to the program "/usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap" 
as the IMAP server, and you'll be preauthenticated.

The only issue with this approach is that dovecot.conf needs to be 
readable by the users will execute it directly.

-- Asheesh.

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