Hi folks. Is it possible to configure Dovecot to authenticate
against one mechanism (i.e., /etc/passwd) for POP/IMAP connections,
while providing a SASL authentication socket that satisfies
authentication requests against a different mechanism, say MySQL?
The goal here is to allow users to have different passwords for
SMTP authentication and POP/IMAP connections. I am converting an
existing installation to Dovecot...this installation currently has
quite a few users who are configured with SMTP authentication (Cyrus
SASL/saslauthdb) using different passwords than are configured for
their POP connections (via cucipop, /etc/passwd). If someone can
think of any better way to accomplish this goal, I'm all ears.
Thanks,
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 20:57 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:> > The goal here is to allow users to have different passwords for > SMTP authentication and POP/IMAP connections. I am converting an > existing installation to Dovecot...this installation currently has > quite a few users who are configured with SMTP authentication (Cyrus > SASL/saslauthdb) using different passwords than are configured for > their POP connections (via cucipop, /etc/passwd). If someone can > think of any better way to accomplish this goal, I'm all ears.Currently you'd have to run two Dovecots to be able to do this. If you do that, set a different base_dir for them and that should be enough. I'll try to make this work with one dovecot-auth for Dovecot v2.0. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20070511/906bdd83/attachment.bin>
Timo Sirainen wrote:> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 20:57 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote: > >> The goal here is to allow users to have different passwords for >> SMTP authentication and POP/IMAP connections. I am converting an >> existing installation to Dovecot...this installation currently has >> quite a few users who are configured with SMTP authentication (Cyrus >> SASL/saslauthdb) using different passwords than are configured for >> their POP connections (via cucipop, /etc/passwd). If someone can >> think of any better way to accomplish this goal, I'm all ears. >> > > Currently you'd have to run two Dovecots to be able to do this. If you > do that, set a different base_dir for them and that should be enough. > > I'll try to make this work with one dovecot-auth for Dovecot v2.0. > >If you can assign two IPs to the server, one for SMTP, and one for POP/IMAP, and you can use a SQL backend, you could craft your db schema and queries to pull the appropriate password based on the local IP of the connection. I know this isn't exactly what you were looking for, but I figured I would throw it out there anyway.