Timo, I tried this in alpha4 and it is just what I wanted. Thanks.

Jeff Earickson Colby College

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Timo Sirainen wrote:

Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:57:24 +0300 From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> To: Jeff A. Earickson <jaearick@colby.edu> Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] 1.0alpha2: "passdb deny" feature request

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 11:38 -0400, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

...

auth default { passdb deny { # path of file listing denied uids or userids args = /etc/dovecot.nonauth } passdb pam { (etc) }

Added to CVS:

Users can be temporarily disabled by adding a passdb with deny=yes.

If the user is found from that database, authentication will fail.

The deny passdb should always be specified before others, so it gets

checked first. Here's an example:

#passdb passwd-file {

File contains a list of usernames, one per line

#args = /etc/dovecot.deny #deny = yes #}