On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 13:44 +0100, Marco Giunta wrote:
Hi at all, in our test environment, I'm playing with dovecot 2.1.13 configured as imap/pop/managesieve proxy. It is configured to authenticate users with ldap and it works very well.
Now, I'd like to temporary disable some users's login, because we are moving to another storage, and I wouldn't stop imap service at all.
I've found on Dovecot wiki that I could use 'nologin' extra field, but I wasn't been able to get it work. My dovecot configuration is:
nologin field doesn't work with proxying. You'd have to return neither "proxy" nor "host" field. With host+nologin it would be treated as a login referral: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Host
Of course it would be possible to add yet another check where proxy+host +nologin returned would be treated in yet another way, but that gets too confusing..
I guess it was a mistake to use "nologin" for login referrals in the first place. And I guess just about no one uses them anyway. So them, so it would be possible to change this behavior..