Disabling passdb pam in local.conf

Ralf Hildebrandt r at sys4.de
Tue Jun 21 11:51:56 UTC 2016


* Patrick Ben Koetter <p at sys4.de>:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm trying to create a configuration that leaves every config file deployed by
> an install process or paket management software untouched. The goal is to put
> every configuration required into /etc/dovecot/local.conf.
> 
> I've come quite far, but I fail to disable pam as passdb service in
> local.conf. What I get if I run doveconf -n is this section:
> 
> passdb {
>   driver = pam
> }

It seems that there is no way of saying something like:

remove passdb

Adding new passdb entries is no problem, but removing existing ones is
hard. 

What is the actual problem? System accounts shouldn't be able to
log-in? System accounts shouldn't be valid mailboxes?
 

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