[Dovecot] master user and ACL's

Peter Mogensen apm at one.com
Sun Feb 9 08:36:04 UTC 2014


Hi,

Quick question...I read in the docs that:
"Master user is still subject to ACLs just like any other user, which 
means that by default the master user has no access to any mailboxes of 
the user."
... and that the standard workaround is to return master_user=%u from 
the userdb.

But why is the master_user authn-id used in the ACLs and not the 
authz-id (requested-login-user) ?

Isn't the whole point of SASL authz-id semantics to have authorization 
resolved based on the authz-id?


/Peter


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