[Dovecot] Does NIS/yp work for authentication

[Simon Bowden]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, 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

We use yp authentication, but through pam. I'd wildly and unfoundedly 
guess that userdb=passwd wouldn't.

passdb pam {
      args = session=yes *
   }

pam.d files contain:
auth    sufficient      pam_unix.so
auth required        pam_saslauth.so common-auth

(which is to say that we actually use sasl for authenticating (private
  crypt strings), but it speaks to YP via the pam_unix module...).

In a simpler environment, it'd just be
auth required pam_unix.so

Cheers,

  - Simon

> directly and automagically or do you have to do a ypcat passwd > pwfile 
> periodically to generate a passwd file that dovecot can use?