[Dovecot] dovecot auth

ben mailing at gigaspeeds.be
Mon Feb 23 10:14:57 EET 2009


You were right... I changed the %n to %Lu in the passdb file scheme and
everything is working now :-)

thx a lot

On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 13:42 +0100, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
> ben <mailing at gigaspeeds.be> wrote:
> 
> > tried %Lu, dovecot seems to still strip of the domain part before
> > looking it up in dovecot.passwd... :
> >
> >
> > dovecot.passwd :
> > ---------------
> > test at testdomain.com:{plain}test123.:8:12::/opt/storage/mbox/bb107608::
> >
> > -----
> > dovecot -n
> >
> > # OS: Linux 2.6.24.5-smp i686 Slackware 12.1.0 
> > [...]
> > auth default:
> >   mechanisms: plain login apop
> >   executable: /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth
> >   user: mail
> >   username_format: %Lu
> >   verbose: yes
> >   debug: yes
> >   debug_passwords: yes
> >   passdb:
> >     driver: passwd-file
> >     args: scheme=plain username_format=%n /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot.passwd
> >   userdb:
> >     driver: passwd-file
> >     args: username_format=%n /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot.passwd
> >   socket:
> >     type: listen
> >     master:
> >       path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
> >       mode: 384
> >       user: mail
> >       group: mail
> >[...]
> 
> Have you tried to change username_format for passdb and userdb *TOO*?
> You seem to overwrite "global default" in "sub sections".
> They both are set to %n - username with stripped domain.
> 
> URL(s):
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile
> 
> P.S.
> My experience with dovecot is limited so treat my replies as guesses
> based of "general email experience".
> 



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