Am 2016-03-04 um 23:35 schrieb Michael M Slusarz:

And you are normally only exposing doveadm functionality in internal, private networks.

On 3/4/2016 11:27 AM, Aki Tuomi wrote:

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In future release we will add master authentication too. Now you can use api key or doveadm password which are essentially same thing. ---Aki TuomiDovecot oy-------- Alkuperäinen viesti --------Lähettäjä: Peter Chiochetti pch@myzel.net Päivämäärä: 4.3.2016 20.20 (GMT+02:00) Saaja: dovecot@dovecot.org Aihe: Re: v2.2.22 release candidate released Am 2016-03-04 um 14:33 schrieb Timo Sirainen:

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+ Added doveadm HTTP API: See
  http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Design/DoveadmProtocol/HTTP

Hmm, so anybody who has the API key can send any doveadm commands?

I guess something like /etc/sudoers for API keys would be good?

Did I miss something?

Some mails later, I got to understand:

• API key is not authentication, but it is authorization

So, when I plan to enable the HTTP API, I must protect the webpage where the API key lives in by the usual means, eg. HTTP Basic Authentication.

Aki also told me, that there is a configurable list of allowed commands somewhere.

The wiki also links to another (parent) page with more details. The number of commands is limited now, but may grow.

-- peter