[Dovecot] Static list of users with passdb pam

[Koen Vermeer]

Thanks for the pointer. I guess I need to change the userdb entry as
well. I now have

userdb static {
  args = uid=xxx gid=xxx home=whatever allow_all_users=yes
}

which seems to do what I want. I'll test some more, but I guess this
works fine. Thanks again!

Best,
Koen


On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 09:25 +0000, Rob Coward wrote:
> If you are using pam already, why not add to /etc/pam.d/dovecot
> something like:
> 
> auth	required	pam_listfile.so	onerr=fail item=user sense=allow
> file=/etc/dovecot/allowed_users
> 
> The syntax may not be quite correct as this is off the top of my head
> and I havent tested it, but we do something very similar with other pam
> authentications, such as from vsftpd, to restrict user access.
> 
> Regards,
> Rob
> 
> On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 10:04 +0100, Koen Vermeer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On my system, I want to provide imap access for some of the users listed
> > in /etc/passwd. The list of users should be provided by me, and should
> > just be a list in a text file. All the userdb options are static (uid,
> > gid, home directory). Unfortunately, I cannot think of a way to
> > configure Dovecot to do this. The closest I get is with:
> > 
> > passdb pam {}
> > userdb passwd-file {
> >   args = /path/to/passwd-file
> > }
> > 
> > However, the passwd-file is now more complex than it really needs to be,
> > as it includes fields for password, uid, gid and home directory as well.
> > 
> > Is there some way to handle this? Or am I trying to do something stupid?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Koen
> > 
> 
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