[Dovecot] Does NIS/yp work for authentication

[Matthias Andree]

Stewart Dean <sdean at bard.edu> writes:

> 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?

I'd suggest to do the latter for reliability reasons (you'd better use
"ypcat passwd >tmpfile && mv tmpfile pwfile" though).

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Matthias Andree