Cyrus IMAP Presentation

[Mr. Simix]

Luca Olivetti wrote:
> Mr. Simix wrote:
> 
>> Right, I'm using Cyrus-IMAPd->saslauthd->pam->[ldap|shadow|...]. 
> 
> 
> Does it work? How?
> I'm not using ldap, but a user of my packages has complained that he had 
> problems with a similar setup. By searching the list it seems that the 
> problem is that openldap is compiled aganinst sasl v1, at least under 
> mandrake. I looked at the redhat packages for openldap and they too use 
> sasl v1, at least according to rpmfind.net.
> I also downloaded your package for cyrus-sasl and the difference between 
> yours and mine is that you didn't compile saslauthd with internal ldap 
> support (--with-ldap), and maybe that's the real problem?

It works great! What you're talking about is 
Cyrus-IMAPd->saslauthd->ldap, means without PAM. I'm doing it with PAM 
and it doesn't matter that OpenLDAP is compiled against SASL v1. In fact 
I could use almost any LDAP server on any operationg system to do 
authentication. There may be some overhead using PAM but I just like the 
flexibility it gives you. You can use /etc/shadow, NIS, LDAP, MySQL or 
whatever you have a PAM module for and you can even use a combination of 
those different methods.

Simon

> 
> Bye