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:

       -D     Enables verbosity and debug messages.

       -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.

       -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 user's login name.  Depending on the configuration, a login name may be for example jane or johnATexample.com.
              It's also possible to use '*' and '?' wildcards (e.g. -u *@example.org).

EXAMPLE
       Perform a user lookup for the users jane and johnATexample.com.

       doveadm user jane johnATexample.com
       userdb: jane
         uid       : 8001
         gid       : 8001
         home      : /home/jane
         mail      : sdbox:~/sdbox
         plugins   : sieve
         quota_rule: *:storage=150M

       userdb: johnATexample.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 *.?oeATexample.net
       jane.doeATexample.net
       judy.roeATexample.net
       john.doeATexample.net

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

SEE ALSO
       doveadm(1)



Dovecot v2.0                                               2010-06-22                                            DOVEADM-USER(1)