[Dovecot] v1.0.alpha2, virtual domain authentication

[Jean-Marc Pigeon]

Bonjour Timo Sirainen,
> On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 09:10 -0400, Jean-Marc Pigeon wrote:
> > Bonjour a tous,
[....]
> start up if you specified "passdb = passwd-file" in config file since
> the settings format changed a bit. This should work:
	(Yes, I duplicated previous mailing list posting)
> 
> passdb passwd-file {
>   args = /etc/vmail/test.%d
> }
> 
> And I tested that it still does work.
	Was indeed working with alpha2 and tried with alpha3
	it is (from my stand point) still NOT working

	Here are my proceeding.

	dovecot.conf extract
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
 # passwd-like file with specified location
  passdb passwd-file {
    # Path for passwd-file
    #args = /home/safe/safetst/orque/clement/spool/mails/.passwd
    args = /home/safe/safetst/orque/clement/spool/mails/%d/.passwd
  }
;--
userdb static {
    # Template for settings. Can return anything a userdb could normally
    # return, eg.: uid, gid, home, mail, nice
    #
    # A few examples:
    #
    #  args = uid=500 gid=500 home=/var/mail/%u
    #  args = uid=500 gid=500 home=/home/%u mail=mbox:/home/%u/mail nice=10
    #
    #args =
    args = uid=200 gid=200 mail=mbox:/home/safe/safetst/orque/clement/spool/mails/%d/%n
  }
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
    "args = /home/safe/safetst/orque/clement/spool/mails/.passwd"
    IS WORKING.

    if I duplicate .passwd file  within directory domain "mylocal.test"
    such as:
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
[safe at oslo mails]$ pwd
/home/safe/safetst/orque/clement/spool/mails
[safe at oslo mails]$ ls -ailsR
.:
total 16
9290069 4 drwxrwxr-x  3 safe safe 4096 Sep 24 09:06 .
9290063 4 drwxrwxr-x  7 safe safe 4096 Sep 23 15:03 ..
9289730 4 drwxrwxr-x  2 safe safe 4096 Sep 24 09:06 mylocal.test
9290307 4 -rw-rw-r--  1 safe safe   65 Sep 23 15:03 .passwd
./mylocal.test:
total 12
9289730 4 drwxrwxr-x  2 safe safe 4096 Sep 24 09:06 .
9290069 4 drwxrwxr-x  3 safe safe 4096 Sep 24 09:06 ..
9289731 4 -rw-rw-r--  1 safe safe   65 Sep 24 09:06 .passwd
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
	and use 
	"args = /home/safe/safetst/orque/clement/spool/mails/%d/.passwd"
	Authentication is NOT successful

Logs show
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
Sep 24 09:07:38 oslo dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha3 starting up
Sep 24 09:07:51 oslo dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH    1       PLAIN service=POP3    secured lip=127.0.0.1   rip=127.0.0.1   resp=AGx0ZXN0MUBteWxvY2FsLnRlc3QAeHg=
Sep 24 09:07:53 oslo dovecot: auth(default): pam(ltest1 at mylocal.test,127.0.0.1): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure
Sep 24 09:07:53 oslo dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(ltest1 at mylocal.test,127.0.0.1): unknown user
Sep 24 09:07:53 oslo dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL   1       user=ltest1 at mylocal.test
Sep 24 09:08:03 oslo dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login: user=<ltest1 at mylocal.test>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
;----------------------------------------------------------------------

	I even tried with 
	"args = /home/safe/safetst/orque/clement/spool/mails/%d.passwd"
	which is very close to your example, still not work 

	So we are missing something.... But what?
	Path too long???, wrong understanding?

	Beside this small problem, I really like dovecot; a small, flexible,
	focused, reliable piece of software... Thanks..
	(We are trying to have "clement" (a small SMTP daemon of our own (GPL too)) to be 
	 teamed with dovecot).



A bientot
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