> On 23. Sep 2019, at 19:09, Edgar Pettijohn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Sep 23, 2019 11:58 AM, Joerg Jung <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 18. Sep 2019, at 09:38, [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>> September 17, 2019 11:41 PM, "Edgar Pettijohn" <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sep 17, 2019 9:05 AM, Gilles Chehade <[email protected]> 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
>>> [email protected]:$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:
>> [email protected]:$2b$****::::::userdb_quota_rule=*:storage=10G
>>
>>
>>
>
> I'm guessing you are looking for fat to trim. Personally I like it as is.
> Just my two cents.
>
Maybe just teach smtpd to ignore everything in credentials table(5)
after the second column could do the trick and would make table-passwd
completely obsolete.
