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] [-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
              /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 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)

Dovecot v2.3                      2013-11-23                   DOVEADM-USER(1)