FW: postlogin script

[Aki Tuomi]

On 14.12.2016 05:58, Michael Fox wrote:
> No response seen yet.  Trying again.
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> Surely someone knows how the postlogin scripts work and can answer these
> questions easily...  Anyone? 
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> Thanks,
> Michael
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> From: dovecot [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Michael Fox
> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2016 8:48 AM
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> Subject: postlogin script
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> I'm using the postlogin service, following the examples in the wiki.  But I
> can't find any documentation on the behavior (what's allowed/not allowed) of
> the script-login binary.  So, some questions:
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> Question 1:
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> The examples show the following at the end of the post-login.sh script:
> exec "$@"
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> My understanding is that this would exec each of the command line arguments
> to the post-login.sh script.  But, there are no arguments sent to the
> post-login.sh script in the examples.  So what is this line supposed to do?
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> Question 2:
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> One of the examples shows exporting some environmental variables, followed
> by the above exec line:
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>     export MAIL=maildir:/tmp/test
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>     export USERDB_KEYS="$USERDB_KEYS mail"
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>     exec "$@"
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> Now, I'm really confused.  Can someone explain step-by-step why this does
> anything at all?
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> Question 3:
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> I'd like to be able to pass some information to the post-login.sh script,
> such as the service (%s), as a positional parameter.  
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> For example:  executable = script-login /path/post-login.sh %Ls
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> Or even more explicitly:  executable = script-login /path/post-login.sh imap
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> But it appears that the script-login binary is expecting only script names
> to be passed to it so that it can handle more than one script.  Is there a
> way to pass arguments to the different scripts?
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> Thanks,
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> Michael
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Hi!

You need to use executable = script-login -- /path/post-login.sh -a -r -g -s

note the double-dash. it tells getopt to stop processing arguments.

Aki