On Wednesday, Jul 23, 2003, at 11:07 US/Eastern, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 17:52, Jared wrote:
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 way out of my league here, but I thought getting UID, GID, etc, was the job of nsswitch.
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..
I'd definitely like to see this. I've got a bunch of crufty old and oddball accounts that I'd prefer not to put in LDAP.
Thanks, -jared