On 11.04.2017 07:33, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 01:19:11AM +0100, Nick Thomas wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> dovecot-core/1:2.2.13-12~deb8u2 with a dict-based userdb or passdb no
>> longer interprets placeholders like %u in the keys even once.
>>
>> The referenced commit claims to prevent double-parsing in a situation
>> like this:
>>
>>
>> username: fo...@example.com
>> config file:
>>
>> ```
>> key userdb {
>> ?? key = userdb/%u
>> ?? format = json
>> }
>> ```
>>
>> result: userdb/foo...@example.com@example.com
>>
>> Instead, it claims the result should be userdb/fo...@example.com
>>
>> What I'm seeing is that the key actually becomes userdb/%u
>>
>> I'm using the UNIX socket "proxy" protocol listed here: https://wiki2.d
>> ovecot.org/AuthDatabase/Dict
>>
>>
>> Similar issues with the passdb, which is similarly configured.
>>
>> In 1:2.2.13-12~deb8u1, the proxy receives lines like:
>> "Lshared/passdb/foo.default.urgs.uk0.bigv.io"
>> In 1:2.2.13-12~deb8u2, the proxy receives lines like:
>> "Lshared/passdb/%u"
>>
>> This comes up with the symbiosis integration to dovecot; I've got a
>> GitHub issue open with them here: https://github.com/BytemarkHosting/sy
>> mbiosis/issues/13 - I'm having trouble believing that dovecot-core
>> master's functionality is broken here, although I guess it's possible.
>> Their examples and wiki still show the "%u" syntax.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Nick Thomas
> Thanks for the report. I'm Cc'ing explicitly Apollon and upstream.
>
> Timo and Aki, attached is the patch used for the version in Debian
> Jessie.
>
> Did I misss something obvious with backporting the commit to 2.2.13?
>
> Regards,
> Salvatore
Hi!
I'll dig into this.
Aki
