dovecot - Feb 2006 - nologin

I need to be able to setup a nologin system for users on my mail server
on a per user basis.  We are going to do some maintenance on each user
(individually) and would like it if they could not login to dovecot
while we do this.   I was curious if dovecot implemented anything like
this.  We are currently using standard pam authentication (nothing db
related) and I was hoping to be able to touch a "nologin" file on a
per
user basis in their home directory.   I think I could do this with some
pam magic, but was curious if dovecot had something in it that would
allow for this.  

Note: I understand I will have to forcibly kill active connections.

--Robert
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On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Robert A. Thompson wrote:
> I need to be able to setup a nologin system for users on my mail server
> on a per user basis.  We are going to do some maintenance on each user
See this snippet from dovecote.conf:

   # Users can be temporarily disabled by adding a passdb with deny=yes.
   # If the user is found from that database, authentication will fail.
   # The deny passdb should always be specified before others, so it gets
   # checked first. Here's an example:
   #passdb passwd-file {
     # File contains a list of usernames, one per line
     #args = /etc/dovecot.deny
     #deny = yes
   #}

Bye,

-- 
Steffen Kaiser