[Dovecot] How to bypass checking of system users by virtual users?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Oct 5 14:26:26 EEST 2008


On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 03:22 -0300, Dâniel Fraga wrote:
> 	This messages happen because dovecot is trying to check virtual
> users in the system password file (which just contains real users and
> not virtual users).
> 
> 	So is there a way to force it to check virtual users just on
> the /etc/virtual/%d/passwd? I mean, if the domain is the real one,
> abusar.org, or it doesn't have a domain, it will check in the system
> passwords, but if it's some other domain except abusar.org, it should
> skip checking system passwords and check directly in the
> /etc/virtual/%d/passwd.

You can't really tell that to Dovecot, but you could move passdb
passwd-file {} before passdb pam {} so it'll first check the virtual
users and you'll avoid the PAM messages.

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