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

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Sun, 20 Oct 2013, Reindl Harald wrote:

> 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*

with mail_log you do.

> in the logs username + ip-address makes the match

With NAT all users share the same IP. Then we have webmail users, that 
share the same IP, too.

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Steffen Kaiser
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