[Dovecot] local users and virtual users

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Nov 17 20:05:41 EET 2010


On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 12:31 +0100, Egbert Jan van den Bussche wrote:

> Is there a way to find local users in passdb when the come in with a 
> long name? Do I need another passwd like file  (i hope not...)

Currently you need to either modify sources or use passwd-file. Although
an ugly way would be to use something like:

passdb passwd-file {
  args = username_format=%n /etc/shadow
}
userdb passwd-file {
  args = username_format=%n /etc/passwd
}




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