Different users having same home/mail_location?
Tapio Sokura
oh2kku at iki.fi
Sat Sep 23 23:08:35 EEST 2017
Hello,
Will I be breaking something if I have two users share the same home
and/or mail_location (maildir format) in dovecot? Mail will only be
delivered to the primary user, the other would be used every now and
then to login via imap (webmail).
This would be on a CentOS 7 box running dovecot from the packaging
system, i.e. dovecot-2.2.10-8.el7 currently. The reason I'd like to do
this is to have two ways to login to the same mailbox, one using
username + password and the other otherusername + otherpassword +
otp-token. Basically this "otherusername" would be for cases where I
don't trust the client computer to not have a keylogger etc badness in
it, but still need to see my mail.
I have this kind of a dual-login setup via PAM for regular system user
authentication and it's working ok. I'm just wondering about the dovecot
part, whether dovecot will do Unexpected Things if more than one user
have the same home and mail_location? If it makes any difference, the
users can have separate homes, but the mailbox should be the same for
usability.
Tapio
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