As announced in MID <s7w4p3ec6pw.fsf@intevation.de> I wrote[0] a new userdb back end, which uses a checkpassword like program to retrieve user data.
This is needed to get computed user data without authentication for the LDA or the yet to be implemented %%h variable in shared user folder name spaces...
The back end needs a special checkpassword program which follows the qmail semantics but additionally provides the user data without password verification when the environment variable AUTHORIZED is set.[1]
I have done some code cleanup (mainly factoring out common code of the passdb and userdb back ends) and you can found the current version, alongside with our acl-plugin enhancements, here:
http://hg.intevation.org/kolab/dovecot-1.2_kolab-branch/
Timo, what would be needed to get the new back end upstream?
cheers sascha
[0] Well mostly copy and paste from the existing passdb-checkpassword... [1] The variable name needs some evaluation: it seems, that courier knows an environment variable AUTHENTICATED, which might be a good choice for us, too -- on the other hand it might be totally wrong. ;-)
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