[Dovecot] Help with dovecot+passwd+pam_mysql

[Skye Poier]

Hmm, I guess PAM with mysql won't really do the same thing, because
it can't supply the homedir/uid/gid etc.  If you use pam, the daemon
will expect to find those things in /etc/passwd which defeats using
virtual users in the first place.

Going to apply the contrib mysql patch now and see how that goes :)

Thanks,
Skye


Word on the street is Skye Poier said:
> Hi again,
> 
> I'm on Freebsd 4.x and instead of using the mysql patch, it seems like
> it would be easier to just use "auth_passdb = pam *" with the pam_mysql
> drop-in.
> 
> I'm not really a pam.conf writing expert though.  Here's what it
> currently contains (works for /etc/passwd users)
> 
> imap    auth    required        pam_unix.so
> imap    account required        pam_unix.so try_first_pass
> imap    session required        pam_deny.so
> 
> How would I set it up so that it first checks to see if the user is in
> /etc/passwd (as above) and then checks pam_mysql.so?
> 
> Example from the pam_mysql readme:
> 
> auth       optional     pam_mysql.so user=root passwd=password
> account    required     pam_mysql.so user=root passwd=password
> 
> Is anyone else using this setup?  Any disadvantages?
> 
> Thanks,
> Skye
>