[Dovecot] Does NIS/yp work for authentication

[Matthias Andree]

Simon Bowden <simonb at cse.unsw.EDU.AU> writes:

> 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.

Well, it's a guess. The NIS compat mode would work halfway, see my other
messages for details. The PAM module ends up using getpwnam() anyways...

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Matthias Andree