dovecot - Sep 2006 - Active Directory

Hi all
I've been doing research but haven't found anything yet. Is there a doc
to show how to get Dovecot to authenticate directly against active
directory.

On Monday 11 September 2006 18:06, Peter Fraser wrote:
> Hi all
Hi Peter,
> I've been doing research but haven't found anything yet. Is there a
> doc to show how to get Dovecot to authenticate directly against
> active directory.
I haven't used Dovecot with Active Directory, but I wrote another 
application in Python to authenticate against it. It's actually very 
easy to use, because AD allows simple binds. My guess is that if you 
set the following parameters in the dovecot-ldap.conf file, it should 
work:

hosts = ip.address.of.active.directory.server

(Alternatively, you can use the setting "uris", and specity your AD 
server as ldap://ip.address.of.active.directory.server)

auth_bind = yes

This is the most important setting. It tells Dovecot to use the username 
and password supplied by the client to bind to the AD server. This way, 
you don't need to have the AD server's administrator login credentials.

You should also use the parameter "auth_bind_userdn" to supply a
default
template to construct the DN to use to perform the bind.

Look through the example file for more information. If you understand 
LDAP, then you should be able to easily make sense of the parameters.

--
Anand

Peter Fraser wrote:
> Hi all
> I've been doing research but haven't found anything yet. Is there a
doc
> to show how to get Dovecot to authenticate directly against active
> directory.
I've not used it myself, but I have seen a lot of posts to this list.  AD
talks
LDAP, it seems, so many people originally used LDAP via PAM.  I understand this 
was because Dovecot, at the time, did not support some feature of LDAP (auth 
bind?), which it does now.

It would pay you to search the list archives on this topic.

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Curtis Maloney
cmaloney at cardgate.net