I tried something similar already.
passdb {
driver = shadow
}
userdb {
driver = passwd-file
args = username_format=%n /path/to/passwd
}
With only the one sarah user defined in /path/to/passwd. But then all
other users cannot log in anymore. Thunderbird says "Sending of
password did not succeed". Does anyone know if specifying a userdb
stops passdb/shadow from being used? Do I need to copy all users from
the passdb/shadow system to /path/to/passwd? Was hoping to just specify
single users I wanted to override in /path/to/passwd.
On 9/13/2013 2:40 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Scott Galambos wrote:
Testing any given user gives:
$: dovecot user sarah
field value
uid 1478
gid 116
home /home/sarah
mail mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/sarah
system_groups_user sarah
What would I have to do to make only sarah's mail_location ~/Maildir
now? My userdb is:
$: doveconf -n userdb
userdb {
driver = passwd
}
I tried following the wiki's but its confusing. Thanks for any help
or tips.
you need to pass "Extra Fields" to Dovecot, see last example in:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields
"passwd-file" is similiar to "passwd", but I don't know, if you break
something (outside Dovecot), if you add the last field to /etc/passwd.
Because Dovecot supports multiple userdb's, you could add a passwd-file
userdb _before_ passwd userdb, copy the line of sarah from /etc/passwd
into that new file and add the extra fields there. See
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile
userdb {
driver = passwd-file
args = username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/imap.passwd
}
userdb {
driver = passwd
}
- -- Steffen Kaiser
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