[Dovecot] How do I use a username/password plain text file as authentication backend?

Pascal Volk user+dovecot at localhost.localdomain.org
Sat Feb 26 15:26:27 EET 2011


On 02/26/2011 06:15 AM Angus wrote:
> I only have a single user (with multiple mail addresses) and I don't
> want to expose local users (no pam or /etc/passwd). Using a SQL
> database seems like overkill to me. So why not just a plain text file?
> Well, I've read http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/Static and
> related wiki pages, but I just can't find a clear answer. I certainly
> don't want to allow "any user" or "any password". Dovecot 2.0.9. Any
> hints for me?

Are you looking for http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile ?


Regards,
Pascal
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