Dear group members.

I work with Dovecot and Openldap authentication. Sometimes users
change departments and we need to alter their homedir location. Every
time this process is needed, I perform this steps:

1 - Change homedir location in openldap 2 - Move homedir folder to the new location 3 - Re-apply permissions 4 - Remove user index folder

After I do that, users cannot authenticate unless I restart dovecot,
process that I would like to avoid. Can you guys give a tip on what I
need to change to avoid this last problematic step? After the restart,
everything works.

Does the auth_cache feature also store the homedir location?

System: CentOS 7

Versions:

dovecot-pigeonhole-2.2.10-8.el7.x86_64 dovecot-2.2.10-8.el7.x86_64

Doveconf -n:

# 2.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS Linux release
7.4.1708 (Core) auth_cache_negative_ttl = 0 auth_cache_size = 10 M auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_format = %Ln default_client_limit = 1024 default_process_limit = 1024 default_vsz_limit = 1 G listen = * mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/indexes/dovecot/%u mail_plugins = " mail_log notify quota" mail_temp_dir = /var/tmp managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope
encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric
relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify
environment mailbox date ihave imapflags notify mbox_write_locks = fcntl mmap_disable = yes namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete
mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size quota = maildir quota_exceeded_message = Cota de armazenamento de e-mails
excedida. Quota exceeded for mail store. quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=85%% quota-warning 85 %u quota_warning3 = storage=75%% quota-warning 75 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve sieve_default = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service anvil { client_limit = 14100 process_limit = 1 } service auth-worker { client_limit = 1 process_limit = 50 service_count = 1 } service auth { client_limit = 15100 process_limit = 1 } service dict { client_limit = 1 } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_limit = 6000 process_min_avail = 10 service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 256 M } service imap { process_limit = 3000 vsz_limit = 1 G } service lmtp { client_limit = 1 inet_listener lmtp { port = 24 } unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } process_limit = 6000 process_min_avail = 10 service_count = 1 } service pop3 { process_limit = 3000 } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { mode = 0666 user = dovecot } user = root } ssl = required ssl_cert = ********** ssl_key = *********** userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " mail_log notify quota sieve quota" } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " mail_log notify quota imap_quota" }

Thanks Andre