[Dovecot] Question about auth multiple configuration

Fabrice MATHIEU simpsons_bart_cs at hotmail.com
Thu Apr 29 20:31:56 EEST 2010


Helo,

   Thank you for your answer.
I will wait for v2.0.

I will try to make two dovecot configuration but can this make problems to make concurrent access (process) to the maildir ?
Thank you.

Best regards,


> 
> > That's normal. But 127.0.0.1 client(network) is considered by dovecot
> > as secure, so won't the auth possible without certificate ?
> 
> It's considered secure against man-in-the-middle attacks, but requiring
> SSL cert is more about authentication. I know in some setups people
> don't use passwords at all, only the SSL cert. So if I did this change,
> in such setups localhost could log in as any user, which is clearly
> pretty bad.
> 
> > Can't we make two auth policy to make secure (client crt require) for
> > public IP/client and less "secure" (without crt client) for local
> > process (postfix) and local newtwork(127.0.0.1) for roundcube ?
> 
> Only way I can think of is to run two Dovecots, one listening for
> localhost and another listening for external IP, both using different
> config files.
> 
> > I see section "auth default { ... }" and is used by ... default ! But
> > can we make an other one to make this two particular authentication on
> > the same "instance" ? 
> 
> auth sections won't help. v2.0 makes this almost possible, it just
> doesn't yet have per-IP settings support for auth settings.
> 
 		 	   		  
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