26 May
2009
26 May
'09
3:10 a.m.
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 01:05 +0100, Stephen Feyrer wrote:
Right. A password is always required, but you can set Dovecot to accept any password. Set the password field empty in the passwd file and add nopassword extra field. http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile
I have to admit I've seen that. I want to turn off password prompt entirely, in effect external authentication.
Is it a bad idea to remove the password prompt if any password will be accepted?
There is an EXTERNAL SASL authentication mechanism, which I guess Dovecot could pretty easily support. But I'm not aware of any clients that support it even if I did bother to implement it.