On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Shelley Waltz wrote: > I am interested in knowing the difference and/or advantages > of the ways one can use ldap authentication with sasl. > > One way is to use saslauthd -a ldap, which uses the auth_ldap > module for saslauthd. > > Another way is to use saslauthd -a pam and then specify ldap > as the auth mechanism in the various pam.d services such as > smtp or imap. >
saslauthd/ldap combination will give you better performance and in general it is more stable. Some pam implementations/modules leak memory. -- Igor --- Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
