dovecot - Jun 2003 - Debian and dovecot

I have Debian 3.0 (woody) and installed the dovecot packages and it works ok
with the default configuration. I want to change the default configuration,
is any of this possible?

a) I don't want to create accounts for each user, can I have a mailboxes
directory with the mailboxes of all the users? They are not many (10-15).

b) The authentication right now is done through PAM, the pam.d/dovecot file
is:

    auth           required    pam_unix_auth.so
    account     required    pam_unix_acct.so
    password  required    pam_unix_passwd.so
    session      required    pam_unix_session.so

I want to authenticate against an SMB server, I added the following
/etc/pam_smb.conf:

    SPECTRON-MSIM
    MAIN
    MAIN    # documentation says I need 2 servers (only have one, is this
ok)

and changed the pam.d/dovecot to:

    auth           required    pam_smb_auth.so
    account     required    pam_smb_auth.so # there is no pam_smb_acct
    password  required    pam_smb_auth.so # there is no pam_smb_passwd
    session      required    pam_smb_auth.so # there is no pam_smb_session

and it doesn't work. I obviously did something wrong, but don't know
what,
and I found nothing that could help me on google. I have samba installed and
it works so It's PAM that I'm configuring incorrectly.

Hope someone here can help me.

Fawzib Rojas

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 16:42, Spectron International, Inc.
wrote:
> a) I don't want to create accounts for each user, can I have a
mailboxes
> directory with the mailboxes of all the users? They are not many (10-15).
You'd need a directory for each user. Something like this should work:

auth_userdb = static uid=123 gid=123 home=/home/mail/%u
>     auth           required    pam_smb_auth.so
>     account     required    pam_smb_auth.so # there is no pam_smb_acct
>     password  required    pam_smb_auth.so # there is no pam_smb_passwd
>     session      required    pam_smb_auth.so # there is no pam_smb_session
I don't think you need password or session there. And maybe you could
have used pam_unix.so in account too. But I don't really remember what
all those PAM things did.