[Dovecot] Exclude Users from replication/sync

[Timo Sirainen]

There's no good way to do this with passwd userdb. It would have to be some kind of a new exclude list of users, which is a rather annoying special feature to implement.

On 13.2.2014, at 17.24, Daniel Stoye <d.stoye at cms.hu-berlin.de> wrote:

> I'm using PAM with padl_pam as a backend to get the users from an ldap
> server.
> 
> userdb {
>  driver = passwd
>  args = blocking=yes uid=XXX gid=XXX
> }
> 
> passdb {
>   driver = pam
>   args = failure_show_msg=yes dovecot
> }
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel
> 
> On 02/13/2014 04:23 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On 12.2.2014, at 16.34, Daniel Stoye <d.stoye at cms.hu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> i'm searching for a way to exclude certain users from dovecots
>>> replication mechanism.
>>> 
>>> I can't use the first_valid_uid setting, because the uid of my pam
>>> (ldap) users und my system users are mixed up.
>>> 
>>> So, is there a way to limit my users i currently have in my userdb
>>> or somehow exclude specific uids from replication?
>> 
>> Which userdb do you use? For example with SQL you could change the iterate_query not to return all users for replicator.
>>