dovecot - Feb 2015 - Interface for managing users?

Hey all,

I'd like to use dovecot as an testing/benchmarking IMAP server for
switchboard (https://github.com/thusfresh/switchboard).

As part of the tests, I need to add and destroy dovecot users. Is there
an interface or tool for this sort of user management at a higher-level
than editing the user store, e.g. passwd-file, sql, ...?

Also, more generally, are there any tools for using dovecot to test
against?

Thanks!
-Thomas

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On Thu, 5 Feb 2015, Thomas Moulia wrote:
> As part of the tests, I need to add and destroy dovecot users. Is there
> an interface or tool for this sort of user management at a higher-level
> than editing the user store, e.g. passwd-file, sql, ...?
It's actually the way around: pick any user management and configure 
Dovecot to use its database.

Depending on what you want, you need a system, that also removes the 
user's home dirs and/or creates them from a skeleton.

If you have already experience with scripting and LDAP or SQL, it should 
be easy to create some scripts to add/remove necessary data to/from LDAP 
or SQL and add/remove the user's home dir.

After doing a change in the user database, make sure to run
doveadm auth cache flush
to force Dovecot to pick up the changes, before you fire up the next test.

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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