Timo Sirainen wrote:

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 01:54 +0200, XhE wrote:

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Hi,

I was wondering if there is any possibility to access the status if a user has provided a certificate, that has been accepted or not via variables. And further if there is any way to get the value of SSL certificate fields by use variables. I'd like to use those variables in sql statements.

I then could assign a single certificate to a user, and make up passdb sql statements, that allow him to access multiple (but not all) mailboxes without the need to issue any further certificates.

It does sound like a nice idea, but you'd have to modify sources for that. The best I could do in short notice is to make "did user present a certificate?" variable available. Other than that would require sending the entire certificate (or at least its fields) to dovecot-auth process and that's not done right now.

Thanks, that would already help a lot!

And I see your point, that it takes some time, to make the certificate or the files available to dovecot-auth. That's why I thought if you could add an option in the mean time. Let's call it something like ssl_cert_auth_field and just provide the content of this field of a certificate. I think in most cases accessing a single field is enough. And in case your willing to provide a variable that makes available the information, if a user provided a valid certificate or not, than I guess this additional variable is also not the big deal, is it? :)

---Michael