[Dovecot] Yet another going from 1.2 to 2.X question: authentication

[Noel Butler]

On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 00:50 -0400, Mauricio Tavares wrote:

> So in 1.2.9 I had something like this:
> 
> [...]
> 
> socket listen {
>         master {
>                 path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
>                 mode = 0600
>                 user = virtual # User running Dovecot LDA's deliver
>         }
> }
> 
> # Dovecot as SASL Auth
> socket listen {
>         client {
>                 path = /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth
>                 mode = 0660
>                 user = postfix
>                 group = postfix
>         }
> }
> 
> I see I can, per http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL,
> setup the sasl entry as
> 
> # Dovecot as SASL Auth
> service auth {
>         unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth
>         mode = 0660
>         user = postfix
>         group = postfix
> }
> 
> what about the lda? From http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA I take it would
> be as simple as
> 
> service auth {
>         unix_listener auth-userdb {
>                 mode = 0600
>                 user = virtual # User running Dovecot LDA's deliver
>         }
> }
> 
> Am I correct?


Yes, but no need for two service auth's, put them under the one.  you
might want to also include group= in addition to user, probably wont
matter too much if you don't, I cant remember the consequences of not.

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