Hello Peter,
I'm using a virtual users model in dovecot where all the mail is stored
under the same OS user account anyway, so file/dir permissions won't be
a problem. The system users I was referring to are actually completely
separate user accounts at the moment with their own uid/gid (and
passwordless sudo between them), but I guess they could use same uid/gid
and just have separate entries in passwd/shadow.
Anyway at the moment I'm not concerned about getting the authentication
part working, but whether there's something in dovecot that will bite my
sitting muscles if mail_location is the same for two users. I'm aware of
the shared folders functionality mentioned by Marcus and that will
probably be my fallback, if sharing a mail_location is not viable. Same
mail_location would just be simpler.
Tapio
On 24.9.2017 0:34, Peter Chiochetti wrote:
Hello Tapia,
You are going to great lengths :) I assume, that PAM working means,
"user" and "otheruser" are the names of system-users with the same uid,
home etc? Then I do not see, why dovecot, all defaults and
authenticating against PAM won't work out of the box, shouldn't it?
Peter
Am 2017-09-23 um 22:08 schrieb Tapio Sokura:
Hello,
Will I be breaking something if I have two users share the same home
and/or mail_location (maildir format) in dovecot? Mail will only be
delivered to the primary user, the other would be used every now and
then to login via imap (webmail).
This would be on a CentOS 7 box running dovecot from the packaging
system, i.e. dovecot-2.2.10-8.el7 currently. The reason I'd like to do
this is to have two ways to login to the same mailbox, one using
username + password and the other otherusername + otherpassword +
otp-token. Basically this "otherusername" would be for cases where I
don't trust the client computer to not have a keylogger etc badness in
it, but still need to see my mail.
I have this kind of a dual-login setup via PAM for regular system user
authentication and it's working ok. I'm just wondering about the
dovecot part, whether dovecot will do Unexpected Things if more than
one user have the same home and mail_location? If it makes any
difference, the users can have separate homes, but the mailbox should
be the same for usability.
Tapio
