[Dovecot] Does NIS/yp work for authentication

Marcus Rueckert rueckert at informatik.uni-rostock.de
Tue Apr 18 22:51:14 EEST 2006


On 2006-04-18 12:13:24 -0400, Stewart Dean wrote:
> If a host is running NIS (passwd file ends in +::0:0:::) authentication, 
> will dovecot be able to authenticate with
> 
> auth_userdb = passwd
> 
> directly and automagically or do you have to do a ypcat passwd > pwfile 
> periodically to generate a passwd file that dovecot can use?

if you use pam. there shouldnt be an issue.

    darix

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