[Dovecot] CDB Authentication database

[Juergen Daubert]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:16:14AM +0200, Luca Corti wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 20:36 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
> Hi Timo,
> 
> > I guess you saw http://wiki.dovecot.org/Design/AuthProcess? It's
> > probably out of date though..
> 
> Yes, I'd target 2.0, since that's what I will be using anyway.
> Is the documentation still relevant?
> 
> > What kind of a database is CDB? How are the fields saved there? I'm just
> > wondering if maybe this should be a lib-dict backend and the auth
> > process could support dict as passdb/userdb.
> 
> CDB is a simple binary read-optimized key value store.
> 
> http://cr.yp.to/cdb/cdb.txt

tinycdb might be helpful in this context, it's maintained and has a
licence (public domain).  See http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/tinycdb.html


Greetings
Juergen

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