On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 11:23 +0100, Mike Brudenell wrote: > [Quick side-question: should I be using $USER or $RESTRICTED_USER > here? I can't work out what the difference between them is. Both > are set within Dovecot's standard environment.]
If you're using system users they're the same. If you're using virtual
users $USER contains the virtual user and $RESTRICTED_USER contains the
system user.
> Is there some way of overriding the home directory used in the very
> early (imap-login?) process? At present I can only think of either:
>
> a) Edit /etc/passwd with a dummy home directory for all users to
> appease
> the very early check, then use the postlogin script to set
> the real
> home directory up for the main imap process, or
>
> b) Edit the source code to do likewise.
c) Use checkpassword script for authentication and have it return a
different home directory.
I guess this has been asked often enough. v1.1 supports now this:
userdb passwd {
args = home=/var/mail/%u
}
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/1cc70ab3482a
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