dovecot - Jul 2009 - multiple authentication mechanisms/passwords for same account

This may be trivial but reading the documentation I can't
find a clear answer:

If multiple authentication mechanisms (or multiple databases
for one) are defined, does it allow one user account to
have several (at least two) alternative passwords
(so that any of them would work)?

Or does it first map an account to a fixed authentication
mechanism/password and if it fails, others won't be tried?

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen

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On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:
> Or does it first map an account to a fixed authentication
> mechanism/password and if it fails, others won't be tried?
Did you tried?

As far as I know any passdb's are tried, until an OK is returned; the same 
with userdb.

Bye,

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:

Better to supply links than "I think"s:

http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/

"You can use multiple databases, so if the password doesn't match in
the
first database, Dovecot checks the next one."

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MultipleDatabases

Bye,

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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