[Dovecot] Secure Sockets Layer client certificate authentication

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue May 26 02:38:24 EEST 2009


On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 14:51 +0100, Stephen Feyrer wrote:
>   passdb:
>     driver: passwd-file
>     args: /opt/etc/dovecot/h.org/passwd
..
> With this configuration the client will connect over ssl and identify
> itself with a certificate but a client password is still required.

Right. A password is always required, but you can set Dovecot to accept
any password. Set the password field empty in the passwd file and add
nopassword extra field. http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile


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