[Dovecot] Login into other user's account // master user for non-master users // chroot to users.<user>

[Charles Marcus]

Thanks Steffen...

I kill-filed Reindl a while back due to his abusive, arrogant nature...

Too bad - I held off for a long time, because he does actually seem to 
have a clue most of the time.

Charles

On 2013-10-21 9:25 AM, Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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> On Sun, 20 Oct 2013, Reindl Harald wrote:
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>> Am 20.10.2013 15:25, schrieb Charles Marcus:
>>> On 2013-10-18 4:31 AM, Steffen Kaiser 
>>> <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
>>>> Now, I came into thinking that it would be good in such case, if 
>>>> userB could authentificate as, say "sales*userB"
>>>> - much like a master user - and ends in "sales"'s home, but with 
>>>> access permissions of "userB", well, like a chroot.
>>>>
>>>> Would it be an interesting feature to add to Dovecot's core?
>>>
>>> I would actually find that very useful. We have similar role based 
>>> email accounts, and currently we have the same
>>> problem - no way to tell which of the users in question did what...
>>
>> and how does the different username change anything?
>> the inbox is still shared
>>
>> you see a differnt username for login but you still
>> do not se *what* he did and if you would have *that*
>
> with mail_log you do.
>
>> in the logs username + ip-address makes the match
>
> With NAT all users share the same IP. Then we have webmail users, that 
> share the same IP, too.
>
> - -- Steffen Kaiser

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Best regards,

*/Charles/*