[Dovecot] Using checkpassword to block ips?

[Larry Ludwig]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 19:04 -0400, Larry Ludwig wrote:
>   
>> if ( $result == 0) {
>>         @ENV{"SHELL","USER","HOME"} = ($shell,$user,$home);
>>         exit 0;
>> }
>> else {
>>         exit 1;
>> }
>>     
>
> 1) If you want to allow the user, deny=yes passdb check must fail. So
> exit with 1 in that case.
>
> 2) With deny=yes Dovecot doesn't care about shell or home. USER is most
> likely also useless unless your check changes it.
>
> 3) If you want to block the user, the checkpassword must succeed. exit 0
> doesn't mean success. You have to execute the checkpassword-reply binary
> as specified by http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/CheckPassword
>
>   
OK thanks.. I'll look into this.


-L

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