[Dovecot] Authenting in Linuxconf format

[Timo Sirainen]

On Dec 5, 2003, at 9:25 AM, Marc Perkel wrote:

> I have an existing email system and I'm trying to addapt dovecot into 
> it. It uses the linuxconf virtual email format. The way it is set up 
> is there there are multiple passwd/shadow files - one for eact domain. 
> They are in standard format. The names of these files are:
>
> auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/vmail/passwd.%d
> auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/vmail/shadow.%d
>
> but - it didn't expand the %d

Well, that looks pretty logical but it'd require several changes. Maybe 
some day, or you could try patching yourself :)

> So - is this going to work? If not - how do you do virtual domains? 
> The documentation is less than complete on this.

If you want it with passwd-file, you could build it so that username 
field contains "user at domain.com". Alternatives would be at least SQL or 
LDAP database and there's some examples in Wiki for them.