[Dovecot] Virtual Users, PAM authentication, MySql backend

Noel Butler noel.butler at ausics.net
Wed Dec 1 00:31:30 EET 2010


On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 14:13 -0200, Álvaro Leão wrote:


> with this example, and the correct pam,d/dovecot (with the mysql acess),
> i'll just use the mysql to authenticate, using the pam module to acess the
> user/password, right?


Why be concerned about needing to use PAM?
It is evil, it is why some distros do not include/use it, you're better
of using MySQL for all and be done with it, at least if something fails
you don't have many places to look, only one.


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