[Dovecot] Master user with "user="?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Dec 14 08:01:47 EET 2008


On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 15:42 -0500, Alan Ferrency wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In our configuration, we are using a "passdb passwd-file", with
> "user=" directives in each username, and a separate "userdb
> passwd-file" which contains the target usernames for the "user="
> directives.  This works fine, for normal logins via POP and IMAP.
> 
> For customer support testing purposes, we also set up a temporary
> "master=yes" passwd-file.  This works fine, for any passdb username
> that does not have a "user=" field.
> 
> However, it seems that if we use the master user to log into a
> username that is in the passdb with a "user=" field, dovecot looks in
> the userdb for the original username, and not for the "user="
> username specified in the passdb passwd-file.
> 
> Is this a known bug?  Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Works fine here with latest v1.1 code. Set auth_debug=yes and show me
the logs when logging in? Also show dovecot -n output.

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