cyrus-sasl + auxprop plugin for ldap

[Shawn Nock]

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Howard Chu wrote:
> Shawn Nock wrote:
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>> Dieter Kluenter wrote:
>>> "Anna Arnaudova" <annaarnaudova at gmail.com> writes:
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>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am looking for auxprop plugin implementation for ldap query equal
>>>> to the one
>>>> implemented in saslauthd.
>>>> Managed to found only one from Simon Loader, but it is against
>>>> cyrus-sasl
>>>> 2.1.10.
>>> ldapdb?
>>>
>>> -Dieter
>>
>> We maintain the old ldapauxprop locally for use in our production email
>> system. I'll pass you a tarball or patches against 2.1.22 if you are
>> interested.
> 
> Maybe a stupid question but - if you want the functionality of
> saslauthd, why don't you just use saslauthd? You're not getting any
> benefit of the auxprop architecture here.

We use both, we have two directories that we query for auth at login.

Our issues with ldapdb:
ldapdb required sasl for auth to the ldap server (we don't use) and TLS
(that we don't bother with on the private network).

It was easier, in our configuration, to keep using the old way.

Cheers,
Shawn

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Shawn Nock (OpenPGP: 0x5E377505)
Unix Systems Group; UITS
University of Arizona
nock at email.arizona.edu
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