19 Apr
2006
19 Apr
'06
1:37 p.m.
Simon Bowden <simonb@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> writes:
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Stewart Dean wrote:
If a host is running NIS (passwd file ends in +::0:0:::) authentication, will dovecot be able to authenticate with
auth_userdb = passwd
We use yp authentication, but through pam. I'd wildly and unfoundedly guess that userdb=passwd wouldn't.
Well, it's a guess. The NIS compat mode would work halfway, see my other messages for details. The PAM module ends up using getpwnam() anyways...
-- Matthias Andree