[Dovecot] Passwordless auth?

[Dirk Jahnke-Zumbusch]

Hi,

>I didn't quite mean that: yes, that is 'passwordless' in a sense, but
>you still have to have typed a password into kinit fairly recently.
>
>What I meant was that with 2.2 it's finally possible to set a list of
>krb5 principals for imap which is different from the list in .k5login.
>This makes it possible to create special-purpose principals, which can
>have their keys put in a keytab, which can then log on as an ordinary
>imap user.

perhaps I misunderstand you, but something like

kinit -k -t /path/to/keytab

authenticates w/o the need of typing a password.

Cheers
Dirk