[Dovecot] Local authentication without password

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Sep 18 14:32:06 EEST 2005


On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 14:57 +0200, Sebastjan Trepca wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is it possible to configure dovecot so that users from a specific IP
> (let's say 127.0.0.1) don't have to send password? They would be
> authenticated no matter if passwords match or not.

Probably possible with some PAM plugins. With SQL or LDAP databases you
can also make them return one specific password for all users if they
log in from 127.0.0.1, but dovecot-auth still always wants to check that
password matches.
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