[Dovecot] IMAP and SMTP Authentication

[Roderick A. Anderson]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Oct 7, 2008, at 6:33 PM, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> 
>> Oct  7 08:17:20 mx0 dovecot: auth(default): 
>> passwd-file(info at aesoft-sbcs.com,66.193.34.88): unknown user
> 
> It's looking up info at aesoft-sbcs.com from the file.
> 
>> info:{PLAIN}crap:5000:5000::/var/mail/vhosts/aesoft-sbcs.com/info
> 
> But you have only info there. So either change it here, or:
> 
>>  passdb:
>>    driver: passwd-file
>>    args: /var/mail/vhosts/%d/passwd
> 
>  From http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile:
> 
> username_format=<s>: Look up usernames using this format instead of the 
> full username (%u). If you want to enable user at domain logins but have 
> only "user" in the file, set this to %n.
> 
> So use:
> 
> passdb passwd-file {
>   args = username_format=%n /var/mail/vhosts/%d/passwd
> }
> 
Well these did seem to be set correctly (I've been experimenting with 
different settings).

Here is a portion of "dovecot -n" output

passdb:
   driver: passwd-file
   args: /var/mail/vhosts/%d/passwd
userdb:
   driver: passwd-file
   args: uid=vmail gid=vmail username_format=%n /var/mail/vhosts/%d/passwd

Where does userdb and passdb each come into play?  Should their settings 
be the same since I'm using one file?


TIA,
Rod
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