saslauthd + multiple authentication mechanisms possible?

Andreas Winkelmann ml at awinkelmann.de
Wed Sep 12 06:06:05 EDT 2007


On Wednesday 12 September 2007 10:57, Ferdinand Goldmann wrote:

> I am trying to set up authentication via LDAP (Novell eDirectory) for
> our Cyrus IMAP server. However, for a transition period, I'd like to
> have the old Unix passwords available, too, so users are given a
> grace period to change the configuration of their mail clients.
>
> Is it possible to combine multiple authentication mechanisms in
> saslauthd, or should I rather try to set up PAM authentication?

You can only use one auth-mech with saslauthd. So either use pam or think of 
auxprop(ldapdb) and saslauthd(shadow). Hmm easier is pam.

-- 
	Andreas


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