On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:26:13 +0200 Andreas Schulze <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stephan von Krawczynski: > > If there is no chance to convince Timo for something like a passwd-scheme > > parameter useful for more people than just me I will probably rewrite the > > stuff myself. Nevertheless if someone kindly points me to the right piece of > > code I could save some hours searching for it myself... > Stephan, > > I'm not aware on any function you need to specify the passwd layout. > So a short solution would be a patch to dovecot. > > A more general solution could be a separate scheme beside > the existing auth backends http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase > or a mechanism to specify passwd fields as you suggested. > > Andreas Hello Andreas, I am well aware of the several possibilities around passwd and userdb. The thing is I want to avoid using scripts or an external binary (which would be possible) for performance reasons. I think the internal passwd file handling from dovecot would be best. It should be pretty easy to do a patched version where only the fields are replaced by the ones my passwd files use. -- Regards, Stephan
