On 8.4.2013, at 13.42, Heiko Schlichting <doveco...@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> The checkpassword interface is used in many different ways: > > I found checkpassword the easiest way to implement authentication against > FreeRADIUS. Using a perl script with > > $input = IO::Handle->new_from_fd(3, "r"); > > and > > my $output = IO::Handle->new_from_fd(4, "w"); > > and skipping the checkpassword-reply binary. This works fine on our server > for many years now but every time when I read some related questions on the > list, it seems that a more generic, not so crude interface would be a good > idea for a future version of dovecot. For executing scripts/binaries I think checkpassword will stay the only way. Other than that, you could talk to Dovecot-auth via UNIX socket by using dict-proxy protocol with passdb/userdb dict. Although that way you'd need some way to keep your server running and it's not that easy yet to create a new Dovecot service without using libdovecot.
