23 Jul
2003
23 Jul
'03
6:07 p.m.
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 17:52, Jared wrote:
Hi, this question gets back to a thread I started back on July 8th.
(gosh how time flies)I still am not clear on why PAM is not supported for the user database.
Because PAM only provides a way to ask "does user X have password Y?". It doesn't provide a way to ask user's UID, GID or home directory.
I'm in an environment that has users both in local flat files (/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow) AND in an LDAP database.
Is it possible for this set up to work with dovecot? (both local and ldap users have imap/pop?)
No fallbacking currently. I'll probably add it though. Fallbacking btw. is possible only with plaintext authentication, but I guess that's what everyone uses anyway..