Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot and fake users

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 10:05 +0300, Vytenis Sabaliauskas wrote:

I am trying to use the following configuration for testing, but it 

doesn't seem to work (don't laugh :) )

Set auth_debug=yes and look at the logs. But here are some suggestions:

-------8<------------ passdb pam { args = dovecot }

Another possibility could be SQLite with:

password_query = select '%u' as user, null as password, 'y' as nopassword

userdb static { args = uid=0 gid=0 home=/var/mail/empty allow_all_users=yes }

With uid=0 you're telling Dovecot to run the mail process as root. That's not going to work. Use some other uid.

cat /etc/pam.d/dovecot:

#%PAM-1.0

auth required pam_permit.so

I don't know what pam_permit does, but would pam_allow work?