[Dovecot] multiple authentication mechanisms/passwords for same account
This may be trivial but reading the documentation I can't find a clear answer:
If multiple authentication mechanisms (or multiple databases for one) are defined, does it allow one user account to have several (at least two) alternative passwords (so that any of them would work)?
Or does it first map an account to a fixed authentication mechanism/password and if it fails, others won't be tried?
-- Tapani Tarvainen
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On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:
Or does it first map an account to a fixed authentication mechanism/password and if it fails, others won't be tried?
Did you tried?
As far as I know any passdb's are tried, until an OK is returned; the same with userdb.
Bye,
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On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:
Better to supply links than "I think"s:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/
"You can use multiple databases, so if the password doesn't match in the first database, Dovecot checks the next one."
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MultipleDatabases
Bye,
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 02:14:46PM +0200, Steffen Kaiser (skdovecot@smail.inf.fh-brs.de) wrote:
Or does it first map an account to a fixed authentication mechanism/password and if it fails, others won't be tried?
Did you tried?
No (still trying to decide if I should install dovecot).
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 02:16:47PM +0200, Steffen Kaiser (skdovecot@smail.inf.fh-brs.de) wrote:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/
"You can use multiple databases, so if the password doesn't match in the first database, Dovecot checks the next one."
How did I miss that. Thank you!
Right. One caveat remains:
"Currently the fallback works only with the PLAIN authentication mechanism."
Guess I can live with that.
Thanks again, and apologies for careless reading of the docs,
-- Tapani Tarvainen
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