I might be a bone head... but I had tried --with-auth=ldap by mis take when running ./configure

[Rob Siemborski]

In 2.2, you can use LDAP as an authroization method (i.e. for groups),
except you need to use

--with-auth=pts and --with-pts=ldap

-Rob

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Edward Rudd wrote:

> The --with-auth option for cyrus-imapd is to specify unix or
> kerberos(krb) authentication (in the ./configure --help) LDAP is not an
> option for that.
> What you are wanting is the --with-ldap option for cyrus sasl 2 to
> enable ldap auth in saslauthd.
>
> On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 11:53, Blackard, Robert wrote:
> > Rather than saying that this was unsupported, it complained that it
> > couldn't find the auth_ldap library.  As I see it there are two
> > possibilities.
> >
> >
> >
> > First, Cyrus doesn't support LDAP authentication this way but rather
> > through SASL, and therefore this message is meaningless - and I'm a
> > bone head.
> >
> >
> >
> > Second, Cyrus does support direct LDAP authentication but since
> > auth_ldap is not longer shipped with RedHat 8.0 it can't find the
> > library.  If this is the case, and assuming the auth_ldap version in
> > question is from http://www.rudedog.org/auth_ldap/, then can I safely
> > download this version of auth_ldap and retry the build?
> --
> Edward Rudd <eddie at omegaware.com>
>
>
>

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