[Dovecot] Multiple Authentication Databases

Jonathan Tripathy jonnyt at abpni.co.uk
Tue Jan 11 15:42:30 EET 2011


Yes, but the problem there is that each database is controlled by 
different untrusted individuals. If someone were to create a 
username/password on a database that is higher in the list, they could 
authenticate as that user, which is undesirable.


On 11/01/11 13:37, Henrique Fernandes wrote:
> Well, at least it work, it will fail until get the right databases.
>
> []'sf.rique
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Jonathan Tripathy 
> <jonnyt at abpni.co.uk <mailto:jonnyt at abpni.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     I had a look there, but that doesn't have anything on a
>     domain-by-domain basis
>
>
>     On 11/01/11 13:31, Henrique Fernandes wrote:
>>     http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/MultipleDatabases
>>
>>     Is that are you looking for ?
>>
>>     []'sf.rique
>>
>>
>>     On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Jonathan Tripathy
>>     <jonnyt at abpni.co.uk <mailto:jonnyt at abpni.co.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi Everyone,
>>
>>         I wish to run Dovecot on my "Front End" outbound mail relay,
>>         and use
>>         Dovecot purely for authentication purposes. However, each
>>         mysql database
>>         for each domain will be on a separate server. Is there a way
>>         for dovecot
>>         to authenticate against different databases depending on
>>         domain name?
>>
>>         Thanks
>>
>>
>


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