[Dovecot] Postfix+Dovecot+LDAP

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Mar 14 21:26:24 EET 2007


On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 11:38 -0700, Troy Engel wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > 
> > I accidentally added it to passdb instead of to userdb. It doesn't at
> > least currently work in passdb passwd (although it could, but does
> > anyone use it anyway?)
> 
> OK thanks for that, but I'm still a bit confused -- I'm after the second 
> part of the wiki entry in relation to nss_ldap; I was thinking to set 
> blocking=yes to just avoid any possible problems in the future with 
> PAM/nss_ldap.
> 
> A) Does blocking=yes still apply to passdb pam {}?

Yes, http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/PAM explains what it does
and why it might not be a good idea. Although no-one has yet reported
any success/failure stories, those are all my own guesses..

> B) Do I still add blocking=yes to userdb passwd {} if I'm using passdb 
> pam {} as above? 

You probably don't have to, but doing so might give you better
performance.

> Is there no such block as 'userdb pam {}' since I don't 
> see one in dovecot-example.conf?

No. PAM can't be asked any userdb info (home dirs etc.)
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