[Dovecot] LDAP for passdb and SQL for userdb

Joseba Torre joseba.torre at ehu.es
Wed Oct 2 17:11:47 EEST 2013


El 02/10/13 15:49, Bambero escribió:
> Hello
>
> Is it possible to setup double backend ? ldap for auth only and SQL for
> userdb information(quota,maildir etc) ?

Of course, you can mix backends the way you like.
>
> Now I'm using SQL backend and configuration looks like this:
>
> passdb {
>   driver = sql
>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
> }
>
> userdb {
>   driver = prefetch
> }
>
> userdb {
>   driver = sql
>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
> }
>
> Can I do something like:
>
> passdb {
>   driver = sql

This is

driver = ldap
>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf
> }
>
> userdb {
>   driver = prefetch
> }

You don't need this one any more. Prefetch is used to get the userdb 
attributes in the auth query, but if you use different DDBB it makes no 
sense.
>
> userdb {
>   driver = sql
>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
> }
>

HTH



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