imap and ldap

Etienne Goyer etienne.goyer at linuxquebec.com
Thu Dec 11 10:08:12 EST 2003


Hi,

Did you compiled your own cyrus-sasl or used a third-party package ?  If
you compiled, did you used the "--with-ldap" switch to configure ?  Do
you have OpenLDAP and assorted libs installed ?

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 03:07:11PM +0100, Geert Reijnders wrote:
> Hi all
>  
> Again I have a question. I want to setup a mail-server and the users must be retrieved from the ldap-server. I have heard from several people and read in several guides that it is possible with saslauthd -a ldap and put the following option in the imapd.conf:
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>  
> But of course when I try to do that I get error messages. The first one is when I execute the command saslauthd -a ldap:
>  
> saslauthd[285] :set_auth_mech   : unknown authentication mechanism: ldap
>  
> the solution is not by using pam because that is not an option in saslauthd.
>  
> The second one is when I try to open a mailbox in outlook express. Then I get the messages that on line .... (the line where sasl_pwcheck_method is located) that the command is unknown.
>  
> What am I missing or doing wrong? I hope anyone could help me.
>  
> Thanks in advance
>  
> Geert Reijnders
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