Hi,
I’ve been looking into a problem with a local dovecot setup with ~systemd-homed~ and uses PAM authentication. To give a brief overview, ~systemd-homed~ mounts the users home directory upon particular authencation calls (which is configurable through ~/etc/pam.d~). Dovecot currently supports PAM authentication perfectly fine — the problem comes when a system has systemd-homed. This is because the session is created and deleted immediately afterwards [1]. This is a problem because if the server isn’t busy, systemd-homed can run it’s cleanup which causes the home directory to be unavailable once again [2]. To support this properly, ideally the whole of the imap/pop3/lda session needs to happen before the deletion of the session. Does the imap session happen within a ~verify_plain~ [3] call? If not, are there any other authentication backends which currently need to keep a live token? Yilin [1] https://github.com/dovecot/core/blob/266e54b7b8c34c9a58dd60a2e53c5ca7d1deae19/src/auth/passdb-pam.c#L219 [2] https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2019-April/115559.html [3] https://github.com/dovecot/core/blob/266e54b7b8c34c9a58dd60a2e53c5ca7d1deae19/src/auth/passdb.h#L44
