Post-login script on proxy side

[azurit at pobox.sk]

Citát Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi>:

>> On July 12, 2017 at 2:35 PM azurit at pobox.sk wrote:
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>> Citát Sami Ketola <sami.ketola at dovecot.fi>:
>>
>> >> On 12 Jul 2017, at 10.36, azurit at pobox.sk wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Backends don't have access to user database and i wanted to keep it
>> >> like this :(
>> >
>> > Then probably your only possibility is to update last_login
>> > information with the authentication
>> > policy framework introduced in dovecot 2.2.25:
>> > https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/Policy
>> >
>> > just build your custom auth policy server that updates last_login
>> > information after successfull
>> > passdb authentication
>> >
>> > Sami
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>>
>> Thanks for suggestion but this seems too complex for such simple
>> thing. I will probably create a small cron script which will parse
>> logs and update last login datetime in DB.
>>
>> azur
>
> Do you object backends talking to your proxies? If not, add a small
>
> service last-update-script-service {
>   inet_listener {
>     port = 9421
>   }
>   executable = script last-update
> }
>
> and speak to it from backend? bit hackish, I agree.
>
> Aki



Thank you again for suggestion, i, finally, decided to create a cron  
script and parse logs (which is doing MUCH less load on database as it  
is not updating datetime every login [which can mean every few seconds  
per user]).

azur