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DOVEADM\-USER
Section: Dovecot (1)Updated: 2013-11-23
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NAME
doveadm-user - Perform a user lookup in Dovecotaqs userdbsSYNOPSIS
doveadm [-Dv] user [-a userdb_socket_path] [-f field] [-u] [-x auth_info] user ...DESCRIPTION
The user command is used to perform a user lookup - to show what information Dovecot sees about the user(s), or if it exists at all in the configured userdb(s).The auth_info may be useful when the userdb is for example a SQL database and you are using %variables, like %s or %l, in the user_query setting. Or when you have configured the userdb in a way like this:
userdb {
driver = passwd-file
args = /etc/%s.passwd
}
OPTIONS
Global doveadm(1) options:- -D
- Enables verbosity and debug messages.
- -o setting=value
- Overrides the configuration setting from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf and from the userdb with the given value. In order to override multiple settings, the -o option may be specified multiple times.
- -v
- Enables verbosity, including progress counter.
Command specific options:
- -a userdb_socket_path
-
This option is used to specify an absolute path to an alternative UNIX
domain socket.
By default doveadm(1) will use the socket /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb. The socket may be located in another directory, when the default base_dir setting was overridden in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf.
- -f field
- When this option and the name of a userdb field is given, doveadm(1) will show only the value of the specified field.
- -u
- When this option is given, doveadm(1) will only show values from the userdb. Without -u parameter if any of the uid, gid, home or mail fields are missing, their defaults are taken from configuration file.
- -x auth_info
-
auth_info
specifies additional conditions for the
user
command.
The
auth_info
option string has to be given as
name=value
pair.
For multiple conditions the
-x
option could be supplied multiple times.
Possible names for the auth_info are:-
- service
- The service for which the userdb lookup should be tested. The value may be the name of a service, commonly used with Dovecot. For example: imap, pop3 or smtp.
- lip
- The local IP address (server) for the test.
- rip
- The remote IP address (client) for the test.
- lport
- The local port, e.g. 143
- rport
- The remote port, e.g. 24567
-
ARGUMENTS
- user
- Is a useraqs login name. Depending on the configuration, a login name may be for example jane or john@example.com. Itaqs also possible to use aq*aq and aq?aq wildcards (e.g. -u *@example.org).
EXAMPLE
Perform a user lookup for the users jane and john@example.com.
doveadm user jane john@example.com userdb: jane uid : 8001 gid : 8001 home : /home/jane mail : sdbox:~/sdbox plugins : sieve quota_rule: *:storage=150M userdb: john@example.com home : /srv/mail/8/70312/79832 uid : 79832 gid : 70312 mail : mdbox:~/mdbox
The next example shows a user lookup, using wildcards.
doveadm user *.?oe@example.net jane.doe@example.net judy.roe@example.net john.doe@example.net