[Dovecot] Using account alias as login

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Javier Amor García wrote:

> I use dovecot with a LDAP backend for user account and aliases. The aliases
> are objects of the class couriermailalias.

As Hugo pointed out, if the "alias" is already part of the same LDAP 
entry the userPassword attribute is located in, you'll have to add some 
"OR" logic. Otherwise it would involve to read the "key" (aka user account 
name) from yet another LDAP entry. This is currently not implemented, as 
far as I know.

Maybe, you could use the external authentification via script 
http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/CheckPassword, e.g. as last passdb.

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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