passwd file for quota

[Cliff Hayes]

Thanks!
That Worked :)


On 3/18/2015 1:17 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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> On Tue, 17 Mar 2015, Cliff Hayes wrote:
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>> Yes and No.
>> It's confusing to me which is why I ask.
>> Per my initial email my password source is PAM.
>> It's the userdb I'm concerned about ... which dovecot is using
>> /etc/passwd.
>> So dovecot is getting user information from passwd file; password
>> information from PAM.
>> I need to add extra fields for qouta but can't add them to /etc/passwd
>> so I have to create a passwd with the extra fields for dovecot to use.
>> How do I get dovecot to look at the new file for user info?
>>
>> I looked at your link and then did a grep on passdb which appears in ...
>> auth-checkpassword.conf.ext
>> auth-deny.conf.ext
>> auth-ldap.conf.ext
>> auth-master.conf.ext
>> auth-passwdfile.conf.ext
>> auth-sql.conf.ext:passdb
>> auth-static.conf.ext
>> auth-system.conf.ext
>> auth-vpopmail.conf.ext:
>> I'm guessing I need to look in auth-system.conf.ext since I use system
>> users. In there it says ...
>> passdb {
>>  driver = pam
>> ... so I don't think I should change that.
>
> See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication
>
> Dovecot utilizes separate password and user databases and you can have
> multiple of each. That means, too, that the auth-*.ext files are more
> samples than fixed configuration options.
>
> You probably have included auth-system.conf.ext by enabling:
>
> 10-auth.conf:#!include auth-system.conf.ext
>               ^ no # here
>
> in auth-system.conf.ext you'll find the passdb { driver = pam ..}, which
> you'll keep unchanged, and a userdb {} section. Comment the current
> userdb section, which most probably has driver = /etc/passwd, and add
> the proper
>
> userdb {
>      driver = passwd-file
>      ....
> }
>
> You could create your own conf file, too.
>
>>
>> On 3/17/2015 2:20 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
>>> On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, Cliff Hayes wrote:
>>>
>>>> password should be).  I plan to store it in /etc/dovecot
>>>> How do I get dovecot to stop looking at /etc/passwd and start looking
>>>> at /etc/dovecot/passwd?
>>>
>>> Do you mean: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile
>
> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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