Hi,
The args parameter of userdb contains scheme, username format and location of the password file. Please take a look this link https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/passwd_file/
For example, mine is: userdb { driver = passwd-file args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/imap.passwd }
$ head /etc/dovecot/imap.passwd to@localhost.local :{plain}1:vmail:vmail::::userdb_mail=mdbox:~/Mdbox/%d/%n:INDEX=~/indexes/%d/%n
On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 at 05:08, Horst Simon <horst.simon2@icloud.com> wrote:
OS environment:
Linux qnap-nas 5.10.60-qnap #1 SMP Thu Jan 12 04:39:10 CST 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I enabled "auth-passwdfile.conf.ext” in 10-auth.conf #!include auth-deny.conf.ext #!include auth-master.conf.ext #!include auth-system.conf.ext #!include auth-sql.conf.ext #!include auth-ldap.conf.ext !include auth-passwdfile.conf.ext #!include auth-checkpassword.conf.ext #!include auth-static.conf.ext
In this file I have following entries and I don’t know what to enter for userdb
passdb { driver = passwd-file args = /opt/local/etc/dovecot/users }
userdb { driver = passwd-file #args = username_format=%u /opt/local/etc/dovecot/users
# Default fields that can be overridden by passwd-file #default_fields = quota_rule=*:storage=1G
# Override fields from passwd-file #override_fields = home=/home/virtual/%u }
In the users file I have 2 users defined as follow: user1:{SSHA512}<encrypted password>:::::: user2:{SSHA512}<encrypted password::::::
Dovecot gives following error message on startup: Mar 23 08:50:30 master: Info: Dovecot v2.3.20 (80a5ac675d) starting up for imap, lmtp, sieve (core dumps disabled) Mar 23 08:50:30 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /opt/local/lib/dovecot/auth Mar 23 08:50:30 auth: Debug: Module loaded: /opt/local/lib/dovecot/auth/lib20_auth_var_expand_crypt.so Mar 23 08:50:30 auth: Fatal: userdb passwd-file: Missing args
I don’t know what arguments I have to enter for userdb
Horst
On 22 Mar 2023, at 23:00, Narcis Garcia
Please, specify OS environment, Dovecot version, and what options did you try.
El 22/3/23 a les 4:52, Horst Simon ha escrit:
I try to configure to have user authenticate to a local file called users, with their mailboxes in ../../spool/dovecot, not in their home directories. I have this working correctly with pam authentication on different servers(openSuse and macOS). This server has no pam authentication so I need to use a local file, but I can not make any sense of the documentation, can someone please help on which files I need to change and to which values. I tried several options but getting all kind of errors with UID.
Horst
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