[Dovecot] Authentication feature I need

[Marc Perkel]

Dominic Marks wrote:

>On Sunday 17 July 2005 15:40, Marc Perkel wrote:
>  
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>>Actually maybe it's passwd-file I want? Docs are confusing.
>>
>>auth passwd {
>> userdb = passwd-file /etc/vmail/passwd.%d
>> passdb = passwd-file /etc/vmail/shadow.%d
>>}
>>    
>>
>
>Yes. If the %d expansion happened at authentication time,
>that would be correct.
>
>You should (could) run the auth process as a non-root user as
>a security enhancement since there is no need for root privs
>with passwd-file authentication.
>
>  
>
If that worked then all I would need then is a way to us %n instead of 
the whole email address to be the user that is looked up. The idea is 
that the domain name %d selects the file to look in and the %n part is 
the username within that file.
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