On Monday 12 May 2008 10.09.19 you wrote:
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> hi,
>
> I have an imap server (dovecot) that can auhenticate using BSD
> authentication. however, when imap server requests authenitcation for
> user xyzzy, I'd like the bsd authentication layer to authenticate
> user 'xyzzy/mail' (which has a separate password in kerberos). I can
> see multiple solutions to this:
>
> 1) have dovecot rewrite the username before sending it to bsdauth
>
> 2) have bsdauth add /main to the username before authentication. this
> might be more generic and will make it easier for other apps to use
> separate password for some apps (using an option to login.conf).
>
>
> comments and/or ideas?

Just simply out of curiosity; why don't you use dovecot with virtual 
users in plain text passwd-file style, or even sql/ldap?

Daniel


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