dovecot - Nov 2022 - access dict in lua auth script

Hi!

I want to access a configured dictionary in a lua authentication script.

Unfortunately the documentation 
<https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/lua/> does mention a dict object 
but no way to get one.

I also did not find any lua tests in dovecot's source code.  Is using 
the built-in dict not supported?

Cheers,
  Tobias Florek

> On 16/11/2022 13:46 EET Tobias Florek <dovecot at ibotty.net> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hi!
> 
> I want to access a configured dictionary in a lua authentication script.
> 
> Unfortunately the documentation 
> <https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/lua/> does mention a dict
object
> but no way to get one.
> 
> I also did not find any lua tests in dovecot's source code.  Is using 
> the built-in dict not supported?
> 
> Cheers,
>   Tobias Florek
Hi!

It's not yet possible to get dict objects on demand in Lua scripts.

Aki

Getting back to the old topic.
> It's not yet possible to get dict objects on demand in Lua scripts.
I assume it's also not possible to get a predefined dict in Lua 
`auth_passdb_lookup` functions.

Can this be added?  This will make using Lua for pass- and userdb, and 
event push notification more powerful.

Cheers,
  Tobi