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DOVEADM-USER(1) Dovecot DOVEADM-USER(1)

NAME

doveadm-user - Perform a user lookup in Dovecot's userdbs

SYNOPSIS

doveadm [-Dv] user [-a userdb_socket_path] [-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:

Enables verbosity and debug messages.
Enables verbosity, including progress counter.

Command specific options:

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.

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:
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.
The local IP address (server) for the test.
The remote IP address (client) for the test.
The local port, e.g. 143
The remote port, e.g. 24567

ARGUMENTS

Is a user's login name. Depending on the configuration, a login name may be for example jane or john@example.com. It's also possible to use '*' and '?' 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

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot@dovecot.org>. Information about reporting bugs is available at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html

SEE ALSO

doveadm(1)

2010-06-22 Dovecot v2.0