[Dovecot] Change mail_location for one user?

[Steffen]

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Scott Galambos wrote:
> On 9/13/2013 2:40 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- "passwd-file" is similiar to
>> "passwd", but I don't know, if you break something (outside
>> Dovecot), if you add the last field to /etc/passwd.
>> 
>> Because Dovecot supports multiple userdb's, you could add a
>> passwd-file userdb _before_ passwd userdb, copy the line of sarah
>> from /etc/passwd into that new file and add the extra fields
>> there. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile
>> 
>> userdb { driver = passwd-file args = username_format=%n
>> /etc/dovecot/imap.passwd } userdb { driver = passwd }
> 
> 
> This works.  But I noticed when I do use it to override
> mail_location dovecot doesn't report system_groups_user anymore.
> Not sure if that matters....
> 
> $: dovecot user sarah field   value uid     1403 gid     101 home
> /home/sarah mail    mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/sarah 
> system_groups_user      sarah
> 
> Now I add to imap.passwd: 
> sarah::1403:101::/home/sarah::userdb_mail=maildir:~/Maildir
> 
> $: dovecot user sarah field   value uid     1403 gid     101 home
> /home/sarah mail    maildir:~/Maildir $:

see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields first section "A
user database lookup typically returns uid, gid, home and mail fields.
Other possibilities are:"

/etc/groups won't be queried now, because of the different driver.

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Steffen
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