[Dovecot] passwd-userdb with args

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Feb 7 16:12:23 EET 2006


On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 13:43 +0100, Thomas Wouters wrote:
> I'm not sure why the 'passwd' userdb didn't allow args, but it meant (for
> instance) that the quota plugins weren't usable. I spent quite a bit of time
> trying to get my new quota-rquotad plugin to work, only to find out that it
> was my 'quota=rquotad:<filesystem list>' argument that wasn't being passed
> to the imap child :)
> 
> The attached patch implements arguments for the 'passwd' userdb, just like
> it exists for the 'static' userdb (in fact, mostly copy-pasted from
> 'static'.) It doesn't try to avoid clashing with the values found in the
> passwd-struct, but I suspect it ends up overwriting them. That could
> probably be a feature ;) I don't use the passwd-file userdb, but that one
> would probably also enjoy being argified.

I added a plugin { .. } section to dovecot.conf a few days ago. I think
this could be done better in there :)

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