Re: [Dovecot] user login on behalf of another user

2012-02-07 Thread rog7993
Hello, Am 06.02.2012 16:05, schrieb Timo Sirainen: Master user doesn't necessarily have access to all users' mailboxes. In the passdb lookup you can decide if this master user is allowed to be this destination user. For example if you used passdb checkpassword, you could look at USER and

Re: [Dovecot] user login on behalf of another user

2012-02-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 5.2.2012, at 18.53, rog7...@web.de wrote: we are searching for a possibility to configure a user login on behalf of another user with a PAM backend. This reminds to the behavior of a master user. But a master user can access the mailboxes of all users. We need this more restricted.

[Dovecot] user login on behalf of another user

2012-02-05 Thread rog7993
Hello, we are searching for a possibility to configure a user login on behalf of another user with a PAM backend. This reminds to the behavior of a master user. But a master user can access the mailboxes of all users. We need this more restricted. Example: User user1 and user2 shall get

Re: [Dovecot] user login on behalf of another user

2012-02-05 Thread Sven Hartge
rog7...@web.de wrote: User user1 and user2 shall get access to the mailbox info. We define the accounts info~user1 and info~user2 with the same home directory like info. Isn't this the kind of scenario shared folders were made for? Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: [Dovecot] user login on behalf of another user

2012-02-05 Thread Benny Pedersen
Den 2012-02-05 17:53, rog7...@web.de skrev: Surely the preferable alternative would be the use of ACLs to give acccess to other users mailboxes. But we started this setup with Dovecot 1.0 or 1.1. And with these versions, ACLs weren't available. And now we have too much accounts and clients,

Re: [Dovecot] user login on behalf of another user

2012-02-05 Thread rog7993
Am 05.02.2012 18:14, schrieb Sven Hartge: Isn't this the kind of scenario shared folders were made for? Yes, of course. Although I didn't called it shared folders in my original post, I had this in mind, when I wrote that ACLs would be the better solution. But for historical reasons we are