Hello,
as dovecot can have many different authentication backends and exposes
itself as authentication source trough dovecot-auth client socket (which example
configuration can be found bellow). This module enables you to authenticate
users against it using basic authentication.
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socket listen {
#master {
# Master socket provides access to userdb information. It's typically
# used to give Dovecot's local delivery agent access to userdb so it
# can find mailbox locations.
#path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
#mode = 0600
# Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root)
#user =
#group =
#}
client {
# The client socket is generally safe to export to everyone. Typical
# use
# is to export it to your SMTP server so it can do SMTP AUTH lookups
# using it.
path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
mode = 0666
}
}
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Example configuration of apache2 server can be found in "example.conf" file
in same directory. Currently there is possibility to chain it with other
authentication mechanisms but that will / should be discussed anyway.
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<Directory "/srv/www/htdocs">
AuthType Basic
AuthName "My dovecot authenticated place"
AuthBasicProvider dovecot
AuthDovecotAuthSocket /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
AuthDovecotTimeout 5
AuthDovecotAuthoritative On
Require valid-user
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride AuthConfig
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
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