[Dovecot] homedir auto-creat

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Frank Bonnet wrote:

> Is it possible to activate home directories auto creation when using
> real UNIX users ( NIS ) on the dovecot server ?

Well, you can use post-login scripting to run thing along the lines of:

#!/bin/bash

error () {
 	logger ....
 	exit 1
}

if ! test -d "$HOME"; then
 	sudo mkdir "$HOME" || error
 	sudo chown "$USER" "$HOME" || error
 	cp -r /etc/skel/* /etc/skel/.??* "$HOME" || error
fi

exec /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap "$@"


See: http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting esp.:

"WARNING: The process still runs as root at this point! The privileges are 
dropped only after the imap process starts. You can change this by setting 
mail_drop_priv_before_exec=yes."

Bye,

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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