Re: [Dovecot] 1.0alpha2: how to reject specific users?

15 Sep 2005 · *:42:42:luser1,,,:/dev/null:/bin/false luser2:*

      On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Marco De Benedetto wrote:
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:24:34 +0200
From: Marco De Benedetto debe@galliera.it
To: dovecot@dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] 1.0alpha2: how to reject specific users?
On gio 15 set, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
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Hi,
In Qualcomm's qpopper, you can specify a list of users
to reject at authentication, even if they are otherwise
valid, by putting them in a file (/etc/pop.nonauth).  I
use this to occasionally ban users who bang on the system
needlessly until they Get a Clue.  I looked thru the
wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication pages and didn't see anything
like this feature.  Does it exist in 1.0?
I have tried this:
/etc/dovecot.conf:
auth default {
mechanisms = plain
userdb passwd-file {
  args = /etc/dovecot-noauth
}

# Other auth methods
...
/etc/dovecot-noauth:
luser1:*:42:42:luser1,,,:/dev/null:/bin/false
luser2:*:42:42:luser2,,,:/dev/null:/bin/false
Per your advice, I set my dovecot.conf file up as:
auth default {
mechanisms = plain
passdb passwd-file {
args = /etc/dovecot.nonauth
}
passdb pam {
}
and added my test user to /etc/dovecot.nonauth like above.
He connected to IMAP with no problem, not what I want.
The default authentication method is PAM for everybody.
Any other suggestions??  My setup: 1.0alpha2, Solaris 9 using PAM,
imap and imaps, mbox format.
Jeff Earickson
Colby College