> On 23. Sep 2019, at 18:58, Joerg Jung <m...@umaxx.net> wrote: > > > >> On 18. Sep 2019, at 09:38, gil...@poolp.org wrote: >> >> September 17, 2019 11:41 PM, "Edgar Pettijohn" <ed...@pettijohn-web.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On Sep 17, 2019 9:05 AM, Gilles Chehade <gil...@poolp.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> Is there anyone using table-passwd for _any_ other purposes than sharing >>>> with Dovecot ? >>>> >>>> I have built a fully virtual setup which shares credentials with Dovecot >>>> and since I managed to do it _without_ table-passwd I'm wondering if the >>>> table backend is really useful and if it was not created because soneone >>>> had overlooked the first few lines of the Dovecot documentation stating: >>>> >>>> "For a password database, it's enough to have only the user and password >>>> fields." >>>> >>> >>> Not actually using it, but for dovecot to use it as a userdb as well as a >>> passdb it needs the >>> additional fields. >>> >> >> ok so I'm misunderstanding the use-case, let me explain why I'm curious: >> >> I wrote table-passwd because I was told that if you wanted to create a >> virtual setup, >> backed by one single user, you needed to have a passwd(5)-format file for >> Dovecot and >> share that with OpenSMTPD. >> >> But then I did a fully virtual setup for myself and I didn't use >> table-passwd, so the >> rationale behind it falls a bit apart for me, unless there's other use-cases. >> >> On my setup, file /etc/mail/accounts is a simple two columns >> username/password table: >> >> # head -1 /etc/mail/accounts.txt >> gil...@poolp.org:$2b$09$0ek9ozmo1u0mSsiRo/z2AumROLK.70T9A6bP3mFDqb38L0sC5RvT6 >> # >> > [...] >> >> This allows both OpenSMTPD and Dovecot to authenticate accounts that are not >> system >> users, allows OpenSMTPD to drop mail to a maildir owned by system account in >> charge >> of virtual accounts and allows Dovecot to properly serve these accounts. >> >> Am I missing your use-cases here ? >> > > Yes, this is perfectly fine for simpler cases, but as someone else > mentioned in this thread earlier already: > Dovecot passdb knows about additional fields, in particular > to specify user specific quotas (usually rather important in > virtual user setups). table-passwd can handle/ignore these > extra_fields correctly. So my passwd file lines looks like this: > f...@bar.de <mailto:f...@bar.de>:$2b$****::::::userdb_quota_rule=*:storage=10G
Just for reference, these “extra_fields" seem documented nowadays here: https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/user_database_extra_fields/ https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/password_database_extra_fields/ <https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/password_database_extra_fields/>
