Indeed you should forget effectivive user/group for same system.You shoud use sql backend.
On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 18:13 +0200, Paolo wrote: > Speaking about multiple DB ... > > A my customer has a server (CentOS 6.x, dovecot 2.0.x, postfix, > Squirrel+RoundCube with vacation and password plug-in), with about 3.000 > users (about 200 different domains), all defined as system users and home > as /home/mail/%user% > > The system works fine. Its only additional interest is authenticating > users like u...@domain.tld / password (maintaining also the > current user.domain / password). > > Is it possible and How complex configuring a similar environment? > > Only matter of sync /etc/shadow and DB or other problems? > > Regards, Paolo >