Hi!

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Victor Duchovni <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 09:36:17PM +0200, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
>
> > * Terry L. Inzauro <[email protected]>:
> > > What is the recommended and most scalable method for implementing SMTP
> Auth
> > > against OpenLDAP that currently manages all IMAP accounts?
> >
> > Cyrus SASL ldapdb plugin:
> >
> >    The ldapdb auxprop plugin provides access to credentials stored in an
> >    OpenLDAP LDAP server. It is the only plugin that implements proxy
> >    authorization.
> >
> >    Proxy authorization in this context means: The ldapdb plugin must SASL
> >    authenticate with the OpenLDAP server. The server then decides if the
> >    ldapdb plugin should be authorized to read the authenticating users
> >    password.
> >
> >    Once the ldapdb plugin has gone through proxy authorization it may
> proceed
> >    and authenticate the submitted credentials.
>
> Is there another plugin which authenticates users by binding to LDAP
> *as the user*, and using the success/failure of that to decide whether
> a user's password is valid?
>
> This could perhaps also be accomplished via a suitable PAM stack or via
> indirect mechanisms such as "rimap" or dovecot auth.


I actually use: postfix -- SASL --> dovecot -- PAM --> LDAP

There is no particular reason why you can't do:

postfix --> dovecot --> LDAP

You just need to check dovecot's documentation, I used pam because I was
already using it.

Ildefonso Camargo



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