[Dovecot] checkpassword authentication

[Florian Füessl]

Hi,

does anyone already use the checkpassword authentication scheme?

I have not found any description how I have to configure dovecot in order to
work together with qmail’s checkpassword.

Enabling “passdb = checkpassword /bin/checkpassword” in dovecot.conf starts
/bin/checkpassword for every authentication request, but the result does not
seem to matter for the authentication.

Without enabling a userdb entry, dovecot claims not to be able to find out
the uid, gid and home of the user, although checkpassword replies these
values.

Setting static values with "userdb = static uid=$fixed_mail_uid
gid=$fixed_mail_gid home=/maildata/%d/%n" results in being every login
successful, no matter if the checkpassword authentication is ok, or not.

I'm using the latest dovecot nightly build from 22. Nov. 2005.

- Florian