Disabling passdb pam in local.conf

[Edgar Pettijohn]

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> On Jun 20, 2016, at 3:03 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter <p at sys4.de> wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm trying to create a configuration that leaves every config file deployed by
> an install process or paket management software untouched. The goal is to put
> every configuration required into /etc/dovecot/local.conf.
> 
> I've come quite far, but I fail to disable pam as passdb service in
> local.conf. What I get if I run doveconf -n is this section:
> 
> passdb {
>  driver = pam
> }
> 
> It is in there, because 10-auth.conf includes it:
> 
> !include auth-system.conf.ext
> 
> 
> These actions are not an option at the moment:
> 
> - modify /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.conf and comment/remove the
>  !include-statement
> - create an /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf which would contain all options required
>  and would not include any other *.conf files
> 
> Reading http://wiki2.dovecot.org/ConfigFile I see ways to include external
> files, but nothing to exclude a file in local.conf.
> 
> Knowing Timo I would expect there is a way to acchieve what I want. I just
> don't seem to find it.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> p at rick
> 
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Is your goal to have "1" config file?

If so get your system working how you want it then:

doveconf -n > /etc/dovecot/config.test

Start dovecot with this file.