[Dovecot] Login into other user's account // master user for non-master users // chroot to users.<user>

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Sun Oct 20 16:42:59 EEST 2013



Am 20.10.2013 15:25, schrieb Charles Marcus:
> On 2013-10-18 4:31 AM, Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
>> Now, I came into thinking that it would be good in such case, if userB could authentificate as, say "sales*userB"
>> - much like a master user - and ends in "sales"'s home, but with access permissions of "userB", well, like a chroot.
>>
>> Would it be an interesting feature to add to Dovecot's core?
> 
> I would actually find that very useful. We have similar role based email accounts, and currently we have the same
> problem - no way to tell which of the users in question did what...

and how does the different username change anything?
the inbox is still shared

you see a differnt username for login but you still
do not se *what* he did and if you would have *that*
in the logs username + ip-address makes the match

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