[Dovecot] Checkpassword interface for custom password check and home mounting

Kai Hendry hendry at dabase.com
Mon Nov 25 05:57:01 EET 2013


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 09:36:39AM +0700, Jouko Nikula wrote:
> I'm trying to use the checkpassword interface to do a password check and if
> the check succeeds I mount the user home directory (including mail) using
> the users login password and uid.

May I ask why you mount the user directory? Couldn't it just be already
mounted and you simply use the PAM interface?

	passdb {
		driver = pam
	}

	userdb {
		driver = passwd
	}


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