> On 06/09/2022 16:31 EEST Tobias Florek <dove...@ibotty.net> wrote:
>
>
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to set up proxy authentication. This works fine, but I cannot
> get the passwords in to be read from file.
>
> Specifically I have this passdb block.
>
> passdb {
> driver = passwd-file
> mechanisms = plain scram-sha-256
> default_fields = proxy=y host=dovecot-backend
> master=imapc-master-user proxy_mech=plain
> pass=</run/secrets/dovecot.imapc-master-user/password
> args = /run/secrets/dovecot.generated.app-passwd-file/passwd
> }
>
> This sets the password to the string
> /run/secrets/dovecot.imapc-master-user/password. I'd like the password
> to be set to the content of said file.
>
> Is it possible to get the password from a file or less desirable from
> the environment? Reading
> https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/config_file/ I assume it's not.
>
> Cheers,
> Tobias Florek
You can use $ENV:variable syntax with Dovecot v2.3.14+. The environment
variable needs to be listed in `import_environment` setting and be available
for dovecot process on startup.
It's enough to just mention the variable in import_environment, it does not
need to be assigned there.
Aki
