dovecot - Jul 2007 - Dovecot LDAP schema?

Hi,

does dovecot define its own LDAP schema or should I create my own one?


(I want to provide IMAP boxes for virtual users that do not have a 
Unix account on the mail server and thus do not want to use the 
plain uid/gid entries of the posix account objectclass to avoid confusion 
and accidently giving access to accounts.)

regards
Hadmut

Hi Hadmut,

You can use standard LDAP attributes. It's more than enough.

My configs:

dovecot.conf:

first_valid_uid = 8
last_valid_uid = 8

first_valid_gid = 12
last_valid_gid = 12

auth_username_format = %Lu

auth default {
  mechanisms = plain

  passdb ldap {
    args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf
  }

  userdb static {
    args = uid=mail gid=mail
  }

}


dovecot-ldap.conf:

hosts = localhost

dn = cn=Dovecot,ou=DSA,o=top
dnpass = xxx

ldap_version = 3

base = ou=Users,dc=%d,o=top
scope = onelevel

pass_attrs = userPassword=password
pass_filter = uid=%n



Saturday, July 28, 2007, 12:53:09 PM, you wrote:
> Hi,
> does dovecot define its own LDAP schema or should I create my own one?
> (I want to provide IMAP boxes for virtual users that do not have a 
> Unix account on the mail server and thus do not want to use the 
> plain uid/gid entries of the posix account objectclass to avoid confusion
> and accidently giving access to accounts.)
> regards
> Hadmut


-- 
Sergey