[Dovecot] New userdb backend for checkpassword like programs

[Sascha Wilde]

Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:
> On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 16:15 +0200, Sascha Wilde wrote:
>> Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:
>> > On Oct 21, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Sascha Wilde wrote:
>> >> Sascha Wilde <wilde at intevation.de> writes:
>> >>> [userdb-checkpassword]
>> 
>> > The code is now in dovecot-1.2 tree.
>> 
>> Thank you, that's great!  The only thing I'm missing is the addition to
>> the example.conf I made.  (I have to admit it was only a stub, though)
>
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/4497c58eaca8 adds some other
> missing changes too. I also decided to change AUTHORIZED=YES to
> AUTHORIZED=1 initially. I did also think about yes -> done or yes ->
> userdb or something similar, but 1 -> 2 seemed the best.

Ack.

>> There are more than 250LOC in deliver/auth-client.c and I wonder if
>> there is already a higher level api for auth clients?  I would have
>> expected something like this in lib-auth, but the stuff in there seems
>> not to be what I'm looking for.  Any hints?
>
> plugins/expire-tool/auth-client.c has copy&pasted that code also.. So it
> would be nice if it was put to lib-auth :)

Ok, I'll consider doing so...  :)

cheers
sascha
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