[Dovecot] multiple auth= statements

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Dec 16 21:50:12 EET 2003


On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 22:20, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote:
> I'm new to dovecot and it's configurations. Reading the config file, I
> have a question regarding having multiple auth= lines in there.
> 
> Is this some sort of a pass-through or fail-through system of
> authentications like where if a user is not authenticated using 'pam',
> then the second method is tried (which might be sql or plain passwd-txt) ?
> Am I assuming the right thing here ?

Well .. In CVS yes, in 0.99.10.x no. They're a bit useless in .10.

> I have system-users, but am planning to migrate the majority of those
> users to a virtual_mailbox system (using postfix) where they have no
> more system-users . I just want to be sure this will work.

Alternative would be to list system users as well in virtual users list.

> If anybody has setup a system with postfix and virtual mailboxes in
> combination with dovecot, and wants to swap stories and setups, I'd be
> grateful :)

There's HOWTO in wiki.dovecot.org

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