[Dovecot] Multiple auth checkers

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Sep 17 03:22:18 EEST 2003


On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 03:04, Dan Sully wrote:
> > > Password authentication still works fine, but I can't find a way to get it to
> > > fallback to using the vpopmail auth. Is this simply not working yet? Timo -
> > > what part of the code needs this update?
> > 
> > -test7 should support this already. Maybe I've fixed something in it
> > since. I'll create -test8 now, see if it helps.
> 
> Ok, thanks.
> 
> Is that the correct configuration?

Yes. It should be enough to just add multiple auth blocks.

>  It seems to me that there should be a list
> of valid auth checkers to try in a certain order.

I was thinking about checking them in specified order, but I don't think
it's really worth the trouble. It's not even really possible with eg.
PAM since it only tells that the check failed, it doesn't know why.
Besides I actually like that I can login to my test server using either
of the two passwords. :)




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