[Dovecot] can't deliver with Kerberos username

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Aug 16 10:26:27 EEST 2009


On Aug 16, 2009, at 3:14 AM, Nikolay Shopik wrote:

>> I don't know much about Kerberos, so I've no idea what would be the
>> proper way to solve this.
>>
>
> A) This means I have to keep file with all username which are exist  
> in Kerberos realm? This is little confusing because http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Kerberos 
>  says I may not have passdb at all. Also I don't wanna any password  
> to be keeped for Kerberos users here.

Right. It's not the passdb that deliver cares. It's the userdb. But  
since you're using static userdb, deliver looks up the user's  
existence from passdb. Of course if you already verify in your MTA  
that all the users are valid, you can just add allow_all_users=yes to  
static userdb args.


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