cyrus-imapd sasl ldap problem

Igor Brezac igor at ipass.net
Thu Aug 25 10:42:17 EDT 2005


On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Jesus Ruiz wrote:

> Hi Igor, i wonder if you can give any guide on how to do this, i'm
> kind of lost here.

What have you done so far, post your config, error messages, etc?

-Igor


>
> Thanks.
> Jesus
>
> On 8/17/05, Igor Brezac <igor at ipass.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Dieter Kluenter wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Jesus Ruiz <darth.timeus at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi, i have been trying to install the cyrus-imapd to authenticate
>>>> through sasl and i need sasl read it data from a ldap server. I'm
>>>> running redhat AS 4
>>> [...]
>>>> the /etc/imapd.conf file is:
>>>> configdirectory: /var/imap
>>>> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
>>>> admins: postman
>>>> lmtp_downcase_rcpt: 1
>>>> #authentication ldap
>>>> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>>
>>>> sasl_ldap_servers: ldap://localhost/ ldaps://localhost/
>>>> sasl_ldap_bind_dn: cn=someone,dc=mydomain,dc=com
>>>> sasl_ldap_password: xxx
>>>> sasl_ldap_basedn: ou=mail_users,dc=mydomain,dc=c­om
>>
>> These are not valid sasl options.  These look like saslauthd/ldap options
>> saslauthd.conf (without sasl_ prefix)
>>
>>>> sasl_ldapdb_mech: DIGEST-MD5
>>>> sasl_auxprop_plugin: ldap
>>
>> this needs to be
>> sasl_auxprop_plugin: ldapdb
>>
>>>> sasl_auto_transition: yes
>>>> sasl_saslauthd_path: /var/state/saslauthd/mux
>>>> sasl_sasldb_path: /etc/sasldb2
>>>> ##end ldap authentication
>>>> virtualdomains: yes
>>>> defaultdomain: mydomain.com
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> You may either authenticate by saslauthd or by ldapdb, but not using
>>> both.
>>
>> You can use both.
>>
>> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd auxprop
>> sasl_auxprop_plugin: ldapdb
>>
>> --
>> Igor
>>
>

-- 
Igor


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