Username aliases

[Aki Tuomi]

On 04.10.2018 14:23, Eirik Rye wrote:
> On 26/09/2018 08:34, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> > # before current passbd
> > passdb {
> >    driver = passwd-file
> >    args = username_format=%Lu /etc/dovecot/aliases
> > }
> >
> > # into /etc/dovecot/aliases
> > alias at user:::::::user=real_username noauthenticate
> >
> > This hopefully works.
> >
> > Aki
>
> This does appear to work, thanks!
>
> As an optimization of the alias file, we tried setting
> "override_fields = noauthenticate" in the passdb instead of placing it
> as an extra field for every entry, however this does not work.
>
> Setting "default_fields = noauthenticate" does work, however.
>
> Why is this? According to the documentation, default_fields and
> override_fields are the same, except the latter one will override
> fields returned by the passdb? I would expect either configuration to
> set the "noauthenticate" flag.
>
> Does override_fields only override fields that have already been set?
>
> Finally, the dovecot debug log logs the statement "Allowing any
> password" before logging "Not performing authentication
> (noauthenticate set)" which sounds somewhat ominous, but this may just
> be a product of the way "noauthenticate" is implemented?
>

I think that this has been fixed on latest release.

Aki