[Dovecot] rc7 crashing under heavy load

[Chris Wakelin]

See http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile

We've just got:

<username>:x:<uid>:<gid>::<homedir>

and the standard:

passdb pam {
}

userdb passwd-file {
  args = /somewhere/etc/userdb
}

It might be worth looking at http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers as well.

Best Wishes,
Chris

billl at inetmsg.com wrote:
> Chris,  I am new to Dovecot and this list, and struggled this weekend to
> get Dovegot to authenticate the username against a "passwd-file" and
> using pam to authenticate the passwords.  I was wondering if you could
> tell me what the format of the "passwd-file" should look like.  I want
> to the username to be user at domain, and tried stripping the domain part
> for username/password authentication against pam, but that hasn't worked
> for me, so I thought I would use a "passwd-file" like your doing.  Also,
> what does your dovecot.conf section look like for using a "passwd-file"
> and pam?
> 
> Thanks for any help you can provide!
> 
> Bill


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