[Dovecot] Dovecot Local Delivery Agent

[Timo Sirainen]

On 5.8.2004, at 14:08, news.gmane.org wrote:

> Support for PAM

I'm not sure how exactly this would work. LDA doesn't use any 
passwords, so it would have to make a PAM call with some dummy 
password. And that would create a two second delay with most PAM 
implementations.

> There is quite a lengthy reason behind this. In my organisation, user 
> accounts are created on ldap. It is up to the services to create home 
> directories whenever the user first uses them. For instance, Samba 
> will do this the first time they connect to their windows home share. 
> This achieved in other places using pam, using the pam_mkhomedir 
> module.

I think a better idea would be to just make the LDA create the home 
directory.
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