Configuring NetAuth host

[Tachi107]

Hi! In my setup, maddy runs in a different host than the NetAuth server. How do I tell maddy to connect to that given machine, instead of localhost?

I haven't tried yet, but looking at https://maddy.email/reference/auth/netauth/ it seems that localhost is assumed.

Bye :)

Cc: @the-maldridge

[the-maldridge]

This is really much more of a NetAuth question than a Maddy question, but the short answer is that Maddy respects the system NetAuth configuration file which is typically loaded from /etc/netauth/config.toml and will contain the address of the NetAuth servers that this host should contact.

[Tachi107]

Thanks for the reply! I thought it was like this, but it wasn't super obvious from the documentation (at least to my little brain). Thanks again :)

[the-maldridge]

In the page you linked:

Note that the configuration fragment provided below is very sparse. This is because NetAuth expects to read most of its common configuration values from the system NetAuth config file located at /etc/netauth/config.toml.

This is of course different than other auth method that are configured entirely within the scope of Maddy, but it is at least documented.

[Tachi107]

Yeah, the phrase "the system NetAuth config file" is the one which got me confused, as in my case I don't have a system NetAuth config file on the maddy host, but it's only on the NetAuth host. Maybe something along the lines of "This is because NetAuth clients read most of the configuration values from the default NetAuth config file located at /etc/netauth/config.toml" would be less confusing, as it does not imply that the file is the same one read by the NetAuth daemon (and indeed, in my case, it isn't -- I just copied over the `bind` setting).