[Dovecot] multiple auth-client sockets

Markus Schönhaber dovecot at list-post.mks-mail.de
Sun Aug 9 14:53:43 EEST 2009


LEVAI Daniel:

> I'm gonna need to use dovecot's auth-client socket in an authentication 
> program. Now the auth-client socket is only used by my MTA, which is postfix. 
> Because postfix's smtpd process (which uses the auth-client socket) runs 
> chrooted under postfix's spool directory, I must create the auth-client socket 
> under that spool directory. However, to reach that socket from another 
> chrooted program is impossible. Can I create multiple instances of auth-client 
> sockets?

I don't know.
But if the answer is "No", you could try to bind-mount the socket to the
second location.

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Regards
  mks


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