[Dovecot] Default fallback behaviour

[Timo Sirainen]

On 23.11.2012, at 9.46, Nikita Koshikov wrote:

> Hello list,
> 
> Here is the problem:
> I have few:
> passdb {
> #1
> }
> passdb {
> #2
> }
> And relative userdb sections. If user not found in 1) section it fallbacks
> to next one - it's expected and right, IMHO. But when the user exists in
> both section and password verification fails on 1) database it successfully
> authenticated on next one. I think this behaviour should be configured. The
> main goal of 1) section for this server is to overwrite users in main
> (section2) database.

It's not always possible to know why #1 failed. For example PAM doesn't always tell if the password was wrong or if the user didn't exist.

> Maybe I missed something and this option is already in dovecot code and I
> can't find it ? Or if not - will it be added in the future ?


I'm not very interested in adding it, especially because it can't be done reliably.