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On Tue, 17 Mar 2015, Cliff Hayes wrote:
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
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