[Dovecot] Master user with "user="?

[Alan Ferrency]

That did the trick.

Thanks!

Alan

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 12:16 -0500, Alan Ferrency wrote:
> > > > However, it seems that if we use the master user to log into a
> > > > username that is in the passdb with a "user=" field, dovecot looks in
> > > > the userdb for the original username, and not for the "user="
> > > > username specified in the passdb passwd-file.
> > > >
> > > > Is this a known bug?  Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
> > >
> > > Works fine here with latest v1.1 code. Set auth_debug=yes and show me
> > > the logs when logging in? Also show dovecot -n output.
>
> Oh, I was just testing it wrong. It's anyway a simple problem:
>
> >   passdb:
> >     driver: passwd-file
> >     args: /usr/boxes/.passwd/master.user
> >     master: yes
>
> This causes Dovecot to log in the user immediately without doing another
> passdb lookup. Add pass=yes inside the passdb {} and it'll do the passdb
> lookup and find the user extra field.
>
>