Re: [Dovecot] NULL for password and proxy fields

2008-02-04 Thread WJCarpenter
It's even documented (somewhere) that NULL value means the same as if the field wasn't even selected by the query. Ah, so it is, on http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields> Not sure how I missed that. Thanks.

Re: [Dovecot] NULL for password and proxy fields

2008-02-04 Thread Eric Hester
also just as a note, when you go to 1.1 make sure to return nopassword='Y' if you return a NULL password or dovecot will complain and will fail auth. On Feb 4, 2008 12:48 PM, WJCarpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> 2. It looks like any value at all for the "proxy" field in the passdb > >> l

Re: [Dovecot] NULL for password and proxy fields

2008-02-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 09:48 -0800, WJCarpenter wrote: > >> 2. It looks like any value at all for the "proxy" field in the passdb > >> lookup turns proxying on. The one exception is a value of NULL for > >> "proxy", in which case proxying is not turned on and proxy-related > >> other fields are ig

Re: [Dovecot] NULL for password and proxy fields

2008-02-04 Thread WJCarpenter
2. It looks like any value at all for the "proxy" field in the passdb lookup turns proxying on. The one exception is a value of NULL for "proxy", in which case proxying is not turned on and proxy-related other fields are ignored. Is that how it's intended to work? Yes. It might change

Re: [Dovecot] NULL for password and proxy fields

2008-02-03 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 12:03 -0800, WJCarpenter wrote: > http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy > > 1. The wiki page says about password forwarding, "Make sure that the > authentication succeeds with any given password. You can do this by > using empty passwords." I didn't kno

[Dovecot] NULL for password and proxy fields

2008-02-03 Thread WJCarpenter
In the course of experimenting with getting dovecot proxying to work, I took a guess at two things. These work fine for me, but now I'm wondering if they are "as designed" or just a lucky accident that might stop working in the future. (I'm using dovecot 1.0.rc17, which is the included version in