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+Userdb LDAP
+===========
+
+Usually your LDAP database also contains the <userdb information>
+[UserDatabase.txt]. If your home directory can be specified with a template and
+you're using only a single <UID and GID> [UserIds.txt], you should use <static
+userdb> [UserDatabase.Static.txt] instead to avoid an unnecessary LDAP lookup.
+You can also use <prefetch userdb> [UserDatabase.Prefetch.txt] to avoid the
+userdb LDAP lookup.
+
+Userdb lookups are always done using the default DN ('dn' setting) bind. It's
+not possible to do the lookup using the user's DN (remember that e.g. <LDA.txt>
+needs to do userdb lookups without knowing the user's password).
+
+The userdb lookups are configured in very much the same way as <LDAP password
+lookups> [AuthDatabase.LDAP.PasswordLookups.txt]. Instead of 'pass_attrs' and
+'pass_filter', the userdb uses 'user_attrs' and 'user_filter'. Typically
+'pass_filter' and 'user_filter' are equivalent.
+
+If you're using a single UID and GID for all the users, you can specify them
+globally with 'mail_uid' and 'mail_gid' settings instead of returning them from
+LDAP.
+
+Example:
+
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+user_attrs = \
+ =home=%{ldap:homeDirectory}, \
+ =uid=%{ldap:uidNumber}, \
+ =gid=%{ldap:gidNumber}
+user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u))
+
+# For using doveadm -A:
+iterate_attrs = =user=%{ldap:uid}
+iterate_filter = (objectClass=posixAccount)
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Attribute templates (v2.1+)
+---------------------------
+
+You can mix static text with the value returned from LDAP by using %{ldap:*}
+variables, which expand to the named LDAP attribute's value. Some examples:
+
+Create a "quota_rule" field with value "*:bytes=<n>" where <n> comes from
+"quotaBytes" LDAP attribute:
+
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+user_attrs = \
+ =quota_rule=*:bytes=%{ldap:quotaBytes}
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Create a "mail" field with value "maildir:/var/mail/<dir>/Maildir" where <dir>
+comes from "sAMAccountName" LDAP attribute:
+
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+user_attrs = \
+ =mail=maildir:/var/spool/vmail/%{ldap:sAMAccountName}/Maildir
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+You can add static fields that aren't looked up from LDAP. For example create a
+"mail" field with value "maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir":
+
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+user_attrs = \
+ =quota_rule=*:bytes=%{ldap:quotaBytes}, \
+ =mail=maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+If you don't want a field to exist at all when its LDAP attribute doesn't
+exist, you can give the attribute name before the first "=" character. For
+example this doesn't return "home" or "mail" fields if "mailboxPath" doesn't
+exist:
+
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+user_attrs = \
+ =quota_rule=*:bytes=%{ldap:quotaBytes}, \
+ mailboxPath=home=/home/%{ldap:mailboxPath}, \
+ mailboxPath=mail=maildir:~/Maildir
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+It's also possible to give default values to nonexistent attributes in v2.1.11+
+by using e.g.'%{ldap:userDomain:example.com} ' where if userDomain attribute
+doesn't exist, example.com is used instead.
+
+Subqueries and pointers (v2.2)
+------------------------------
+
+LDAP values can now have DN pointers to other entries that are queried.
+
+*Note*: These aren't actually very useful anymore. See the next section for how
+to do multiple queries more easily using multiple userdbs.
+
+Example:
+
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+user_attrs = \
+ =user=%{ldap:uid}, \
+ @mail=%{ldap:mailDN}, \
+ =uid=%{ldap:uidNumber@mail}, \
+ =gid=%{ldap:gidNumber@mail}, \
+ =home=%{ldap:rootPath@mail}/%d/%n
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+This will do a regular lookup first. Then does another lookup with DN taken
+from mailDN's value. The *@mail attributes are assigned from the second
+lookup's results.
+
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+user_attrs = \
+ =user=%{ldap:uid}, \
+ =home=%{ldap_ptr:activePath}, \
+ !primaryPath, !secondaryPath
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The activePath's value can be either "primaryPath" or "secondaryPath". The
+home's value will be the contents of that field. The !field tells Dovecot to
+fetch the field's value but not to do anything with it otherwise.
+
+Multiple queries via userdbs (v2.2+)
+------------------------------------
+
+Example: Give the user a class attribute, which defines the default quota:
+
+dovecot.conf:
+
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+userdb {
+ driver = ldap
+ args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-users-ldap.conf.ext
+ result_success = continue-ok
+}
+userdb {
+ driver = ldap
+ args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-class-ldap.conf.ext
+ skip = notfound
+}
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/etc/dovecot/dovecot-users-ldap.conf.ext:
+
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# If user has overridden quota, quota_rule is set below. Otherwise it's still
+unset.
+user_attrs = \
+ =class=%{ldap:userClass}
+ quotaBytes=quota_rule=*:bytes=%{ldap:quotaBytes}
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/etc/dovecot/dovecot-class-ldap.conf.ext:
+
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Do the lookup using the user's class:
+user_filter = (&(objectClass=userClass)(class=%{userdb:class}))
+# With :protected suffix the quota_rule isn't overridden if it's already set.
+user_attrs = \
+ classQuotaBytes=quota_rule:protected=*:bytes=%{ldap:classQuotaBytes}
+---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Variables and domains
+---------------------
+
+User names and domains may be distinguished using the <Variables.txt> %n and
+%d. They split the /previous username/ at the "@" character. The /previous
+username/ is:
+
+ * For LMTP, it will be user@hostname, where hostname depends on e.g. the
+ Postfix configuration.
+ * For IMAP, it will be whatever the password database has designated as the
+ username. If the (LDAP) password database has "user_attrs = =user=%n", then
+ the domain part of the login name will be stripped by the password database.
+ The UserDB will not see any domain part, i.e. %n and %u are the same thing
+ for the UserDB.
+
+The UserDB may set a new username, too, using "user_attrs = =user=...". This
+will be used for
+
+ * Logging
+ * %u and %d variables in other parts of the configuration (e.g. quota file
+ names)
+
+(This file was created from the wiki on 2019-06-19 12:42)