[Dovecot] Root password or key access to pop3?

[Andrew Hutchings]

Matt Juszczak wrote:
>> You could keep the passwords in plain text form in an sql table for 
>> dovecot to access, you could then easily plug this into a PHP script. 
>> Or just give them access to the MySQL database.  We as an ISP keep 
>> passwords in crypt or MD5 form as well as plain text in the SQL so the 
>> customer's control panel can reveal their E-Mail and FTP passwords 
>> upon request.
> 
> 
> This really isn't an option for us.  We use LDAP as a back end and all 
> the passwords are in crypt already.  We need a way for our pop server to 
> accept a "pass all" password of some sort so we can access anyone's mail 
> via pop3 without knowing their password...
> 

Hi Matt,

If you use dovecot 1.0 you could add a second auth scheme such as sql 
that has 1 user/pass in which overrides the mail_env (settable in the 
PHP).  Beyond that you are talking a hack I think.  Maybe some kind of 
new static passdb module?
We only have 6000 users on the mail cluster (as our ADSL service only 
went live 2 days ago) so I am the only one who needs to access it for 
support and I do it via SSH and some custom scripts I wrote.

Regards
Andrew

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