[Dovecot] Dovecot, Postfix and Dovecot LDA (LMTP) delivery

Remy Zandwijk remy.zandwijk at falw.vu.nl
Mon Mar 7 09:38:37 EET 2011


On 06.03.2011 23:19 , Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 15:18 +0100, Remy Zandwijk wrote:
>>       userdb {
>>           driver = passwd-file
>>           args = username_format=%n /etc/passwd
>>       }
> It's not a great idea to use passwd-file for /etc/passwd. I guess it
> usually works, but there are no guarantees of random failures when the
> passwd file is being modified.
>
> You can do this better by keeping the userdb passwd, and setting:
>
> auth_username_format = %n
>
Thanks Timo.

I read this as I should do:

userdb {
     driver = passwd
     args = auth_username_format=%n
}

That didn't work. So I guess I should have read set auth_username_format = %n 
in conf.d/10-auth.conf. That works.

-Remy



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