I have a new Dovecot v2.2.9 installation and am having trouble
getting virtual users recognized.
Also, the example configuration listed on the Wiki generates config errors.
Note that I haven't tried running dovecot yet, I wanted to verify
that the config looked good first.
First, my configuration. I'm trying to use /etc/dovecot/users as my
combined userdb and passdb file, with all users having a UID/GID of
vmail, and a home directory of /local/mnt/home/<user>
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$ sudo doveconf -n
# 2.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.13.0-39-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS ext4
auth_verbose = yes
log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S "
mail_location = mdbox:/local/mnt/mail/%n
managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope
encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric
relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify
environment mailbox date ihave
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
location =
mailbox Drafts {
special_use = \Drafts
}
mailbox Junk {
special_use = \Junk
}
mailbox Sent {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox "Sent Messages" {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox Trash {
special_use = \Trash
}
prefix =
}
passdb {
args = username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/users
driver = passwd-file
}
passdb {
driver = pam
}
plugin {
sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
sieve_dir = ~/sieve
}
postmaster_address = ra...@qti.qualcomm.com
protocols = " imap sieve pop3"
ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
userdb {
args = username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/users
default_fields = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/local/mnt/home/%n
driver = passwd-file
}
userdb {
driver = passwd
}
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Next, my /etc/dovecot/users file:
$ cat /etc/dovecot/users
fred:x
test:{SSHA}amehbJZYxKWuIbywINVNWxKcPrWi27a+
poptest2:x
poptest3:x
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If I ask dovecot what it knows about user 'test' it says the user
doesn't exist:
$ sudo doveadm user test
field valueuserdb lookup: user test doesn't exist
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If I ask about a user in /etc/passwd, it finds it:
$ sudo doveadm user nobody
field value
uid 65534
gid 65534
home /nonexistent
mail mdbox:/local/mnt/mail/nobody
system_groups_user nobody
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As an aside, when I copied the sample config entries from
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/UserDatabase it got config errors:
userdb {
driver = passwd-file
args = username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/users
default_fields = uid=vmail gid=vmail
override_fields =
skip = never
result_failure = continue
result_internalfail = continue
result_success = return-ok
}
The 'skip', 'result_failure', etc. entries all generated config
errors as being unknown. Since these were just explicitly setting
config variables to their default values, I deleted them. It does
seem odd that the config sample from the Wiki generated errors though.
--
Randall Gellens
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