No it's intentionally %Ln to convert user1@domain into user1 for PAM.

Aki

On July 13, 2017 at 2:03 PM Larry Rosenman <larryrtx@gmail.com> wrote:

Is the %Ln on the 2nd passdb supposed to be a %Lu?

Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8+. -------- Original message --------From: Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi> Date: 7/13/17 4:43 AM (GMT-06:00) To: Dovecot List <dovecot@dovecot.org>, Larry Rosenman <larryrtx@gmail.com> Subject: Re: System users lookup via PAM: strip the domain name? No.

It's just a placeholder, like %u or %d.

Aki

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On July 13, 2017 at 10:57 AM Larry Rosenman <larryrtx@gmail.com> wrote:

Will %{original_username} set %d as well?

Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8+. -------- Original message --------From: Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi> Date: 7/13/17 12:34 AM (GMT-06:00) To: Dovecot List <dovecot@dovecot.org>, Larry Rosenman <larryrtx@gmail.com> Subject: Re: System users lookup via PAM: strip the domain name?

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On July 13, 2017 at 4:27 AM Larry Rosenman <larryrtx@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a need for the following:

Real system users in /etc/{passwd,shadow} (actually PAM on FreeBSD) wirhOUT @domain in /etc/passwd

Virtual Users in SQL (with full user@domain in the DB)

When I have auth_username_format = %Ln I can’t auth the Virtual Users, and if I have auth_username_format = %Lu I can’t auth System users.

Is there a compromise somewhere?

You could try using %{original_username} in SQL.

Or you can try removing the auth_username_format and instead

passdb { driver = sql args = ... } passdb { driver = static args = user=%Ln noauthenticate # you can remove next line if you want to always normalize your usernames skip = authenticated } passdb { driver = pam args = ... skip = authenticated }

Aki