On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Jan Kundrát wrote:
Dag Wieers wrote:
Trying to simplify the postfix/dovecot/saslauthd setup with less than 10 users, I was looking for some way to NOT duplicate the username/password setup. [...] My other idea to simplify was using something like pam_unix, but modified to use a seperate file (not /etc/shadow) and use pam in both dovecot and saslauthd. But I can't find something like that, pam_unix is fixed, and pam_userdb is something I'd like to avoid.
Why don't you just use pam_unix?
These are virtual users.
But I found a workaround, apparently authsasld is able to authenticate against dovecot IMAP using 'rimap' authentication mechanism. Sadly this means I have to enable PLAIN IMAP password authentication in dovecot.
But at least it means I can get rid of the sasldb database that had the same user/pass information that was in my dovecot passwd file.
Now the only redundant information is in postfix's virtual user file and in the dovecot virtual user file. For defining new user this means I have 3 files to edit (dovecot userdb en passdb, and postfix virtual mailbox map) instead of 4 (sasldb).
Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]