dovecot - Jul 2010 - Master Users

Greetings,

My company is currently using dovecot with ldap, I am in the process of 
migrating this over to Exchange. However, to make the process a lot 
smoother I need to make use of the master user function of dovecot to 
enable access to other users mailboxes without needing their password. 
I've gone through the documentation but it looks like this might not be 
possible with an ldap backend.

The wiki isnt exactly crystal clear on where the master user config 
needs to go. I've generated a passdb file with an admin user and password.

Any information that would go to help would be very welcome.

Cheers

--

I have an ldap configuration but i have done the same as you.
In dovecot.conf:

 auth_master_user_separator=*
  passdb passwd-file {
    args = /usr/local/etc/passwd.masterusers
    master= yes
  }

I have used this to generate passwd.masterusers file:

htpasswd -b -c -s /usr/local/etc/passwd.masterusers user password


The passwd.masterusers :

admin:{SHA}gfdokoir9ewerre

Then i authenticate using:

user*admin
password of the administration.

Greetings,

Andr?s Fernando Yacopino

Infraestructura - Dpto Sistemas

AcaSalud

Cooperativa de Prestaciones M?dico Asistenciales Limitada

Tel: 0341-4208755

ayacopino at acasalud.com.ar



El 13/07/10 09:48, Ben Watts escribi?:
> Greetings,
>
> My company is currently using dovecot with ldap, I am in the process of 
> migrating this over to Exchange. However, to make the process a lot 
> smoother I need to make use of the master user function of dovecot to 
> enable access to other users mailboxes without needing their password. 
> I've gone through the documentation but it looks like this might not be
> possible with an ldap backend.
>
> The wiki isnt exactly crystal clear on where the master user config 
> needs to go. I've generated a passdb file with an admin user and
password.
>
> Any information that would go to help would be very welcome.
>
> Cheers
>
>