saslauthd and ldap and ??? pam

[Igor Brezac]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Shelley Waltz wrote:

> I am interested in knowing the difference and/or advantages
> of the ways one can use ldap authentication with sasl.
>
> One way is to use saslauthd -a ldap, which uses the auth_ldap
> module for saslauthd.
>
> Another way is to use saslauthd -a pam and then specify ldap
> as the auth mechanism in the various pam.d services such as
> smtp or imap.
>

saslauthd/ldap combination will give you better performance and in general
it is more stable.  Some pam implementations/modules leak memory.

-- 
Igor
---
Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus
Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu
List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html