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

[Reindl Harald]

Am 21.10.2013 15:30, schrieb Charles Marcus:
> Thanks Steffen...
> 
> I kill-filed Reindl a while back due to his abusive, arrogant nature...

what was absusive in this thread?

and the abusive reply to you in the following thread was
well deserved after your "prove it"
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2013-February/088587.html

> Too bad - I held off for a long time, because he does actually seem to have a clue most of the time.

because i read docs, not only for dovecot, for a lot of other server
software far away from mail and the underlying RFC's too

> On 2013-10-21 9:25 AM, Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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>> On Sun, 20 Oct 2013, Reindl Harald wrote:
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>>> 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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