[Dovecot] user database clarification

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 18:07, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > I'm in an environment that has users both in local flat files 
> > (/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow) AND in an LDAP database.
> > 
> > Is it possible for this set up to work with dovecot?  (both local and 
> > ldap users have imap/pop?)
> 
> No fallbacking currently. I'll probably add it though. Fallbacking btw.
> is possible only with plaintext authentication, but I guess that's what
> everyone uses anyway..

CVS supports it now.

I also moved auth client code into lib-auth/ directory. Mostly because
it's cleaner there, but I was also thinking that maybe some other
programs would want to talk to dovecot-auth. SMTP servers come to my
mind first. Wouldn't it be nice to keep all the authentication settings
in one place? :) It's possible with LDAP and SQL databases, but I'd
rather use passwd-file with the few users I need.