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Added support for "master users" who can log in as other people. Currently works only with SASL PLAIN authentication by giving it authorization ID string.
author Timo Sirainen <timo.sirainen@movial.fi>
date Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:14:58 +0200
parents 6519f3c7bd63
children dadc6e2cccb8
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--- a/dovecot-example.conf	Sat Feb 18 14:14:32 2006 +0200
+++ b/dovecot-example.conf	Mon Feb 20 15:14:58 2006 +0200
@@ -625,6 +625,12 @@
   # allow both system users (/etc/passwd) and virtual users to login without
   # duplicating the system users into virtual database.
   #
+  # By adding master=yes setting inside a passdb you make the passdb a list
+  # of "master users", who can log in as anyone else. The destination user
+  # is still looked up from passdb without password verification, but this
+  # doesn't work with eg. PAM, so you can also set master_no_passdb=yes to
+  # skip this step and rely on userdb catching the invalid usernames.
+  #
   # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication
   #