[Dovecot] [dovecot] Question about master user and PAM with dovecot 2.0.12

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 10:55 -0400, Jonathan Siegle wrote:
> Is it possible to allow master users to be authenticated against PAM? Something like:
> 
> passdb {
>   driver = pam
>   master = yes
> }

If PAM authentication succeeds, the user is a master user with this
config.

> and then have a userdb which qualifies what accounts are master accounts but doesn't have passwords?

Do you mean you would want both master and non-master users be
authenticated from a single PAM passdb? That won't work, you need
separate passdbs. You could probably configure two different PAM
services and use them both..