On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 13:15 +0530, PARTH MONGA wrote: > IS IT POSSIBLE IN DOVECOT TO HAVE MULTIPLE AUTHENTICATION MECHANISM FOR A > PARTICULAR USER > > as u provided me in the link > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/MultipleDatabases > > <http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/MultipleDatabases>The link is > applied to all the users( system + virtual) , which increased my overhead of > fetching data > can i have the same for a particular user ( local + database ) auth > mecahnism
The passdb/userdb lookups are done in the order as specified in config file. You can't tell Dovecot to only look up some users from one database. But if the first passdb/userdb is really fast (e.g. local passwd or passwd-file) then it basically doesn't matter, because the extra cost isn't noticeable.
