Authenticating by active directory

Igor Brezac igor at ipass.net
Sun Nov 21 20:33:27 EST 2004


On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Dick Davies wrote:

> * Vernon A. Fort <vfort at provident-solutions.com> [1136 15:36]:
>> I have squid and samba authenticating by active directory and was trying
>> to figure out the best approach in getting the cyrus-imap accounts to
>> auth via active directory as well.
>>
>> Can someone point me in the right direction - I cannot find an
>> configuration example for cyrus-imap or cyrus-sasl.
>
> Best way is probably to have cyrus auth via saslauthd, then saslauthd
> in turn talk to PAM, and use pam_ldap.
>

You can also use saslauthd built-in ldap or kerberos5 authentication 
mechanisms.

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Igor
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