On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:38:59 +0200 Benny Pedersen me@junc.eu wrote:

Stephan von Krawczynski skrev den 2014-04-21 09:33:

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Or do I have to patch the source, and where if necessary?

dovecot does not need passwd files, you can eg use any db that dovecot support, lets say sqlite, then you can make layout free of charge

make a php wrapper that import flat filedb to sqlite, and another one to export sqlite to fliledb

that would be heaven imho :)

and at the same time a nice backup

Hello Benny,

there are good reasons why this is _not_ possible. The setup is complex and lots of other software parts depend on the passwd file. Since they should all be interacting it is no good idea to spread the same data over several "databases". Furthermore we are not talking about _one_ passwd-like file but thousands (one for every domain). Believe me, I thought about it before asking exactly this question and not for some solution. If there is no chance to convince Timo for something like a passwd-scheme parameter useful for more people than just me I will probably rewrite the stuff myself. Nevertheless if someone kindly points me to the right piece of code I could save some hours searching for it myself...

-- Regards, Stephan

On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:26:13 +0200 Andreas Schulze sca@andreasschulze.de wrote:

Stephan von Krawczynski:

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If there is no chance to convince Timo for something like a passwd-scheme parameter useful for more people than just me I will probably rewrite the stuff myself. Nevertheless if someone kindly points me to the right piece of code I could save some hours searching for it myself... Stephan,

I'm not aware on any function you need to specify the passwd layout. So a short solution would be a patch to dovecot.

A more general solution could be a separate scheme beside the existing auth backends http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase or a mechanism to specify passwd fields as you suggested.

Andreas

Hello Andreas,

I am well aware of the several possibilities around passwd and userdb. The thing is I want to avoid using scripts or an external binary (which would be possible) for performance reasons. I think the internal passwd file handling from dovecot would be best. It should be pretty easy to do a patched version where only the fields are replaced by the ones my passwd files use.

-- Regards, Stephan