[Dovecot] delegation of admin rights

[Timo Sirainen]

On 23.5.2011, at 18.38, Ed W wrote:

> Note one significant limitation is that the username is in the format
> "admin*user" in variable %u.

I don't think this is true.

> Also you have Checkpassword script option and you can do anything you
> like in that script?

Maybe something like that.. I think all of the pieces for this already exist in Dovecot. They just need to be put together in a way that works nicely. ACLs can be given to master user (although there still is no "default ACL" which makes this annoying). The checkpassword can anyway figure out if user X can be allowed to give user Y rights. I think all users then need to be both master users and passdb users.