dovecot - Jul 2003 - user database clarification

Hi, this question gets back to a thread I started back on July 8th.  
(gosh how time flies)

I still am not clear on why PAM is not supported for the user database.

I'm in an environment that has users both in local flat files 
(/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow) AND in an LDAP database.

Is it possible for this set up to work with dovecot?  (both local and 
ldap users have imap/pop?)

I'd prefer to just have Dovecot use PAM for user db and the password 
database so that I can configure PAM to try both local users and LDAP 
users.

Thanks a lot.
-jared

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 17:52, Jared wrote:
> Hi, this question gets back to a thread I started back on July 8th.  
> (gosh how time flies)
> 
> I still am not clear on why PAM is not supported for the user database.
Because PAM only provides a way to ask "does user X have password Y?".
It doesn't provide a way to ask user's UID, GID or home directory.
> I'm in an environment that has users both in local flat files 
> (/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow) AND in an LDAP database.
> 
> Is it possible for this set up to work with dovecot?  (both local and 
> ldap users have imap/pop?)
No fallbacking currently. I'll probably add it though. Fallbacking btw.
is possible only with plaintext authentication, but I guess that's what
everyone uses anyway..