ldap authentication for imapd

[Igor Brezac]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Dieter Kluenter wrote:

> Hi,
> man imapd.conf(5) lists some options to authenticate against ldap,

This is for authorization not authentication.

> I
> just wonder which auxprop and pwcheck_method has to be evoked. For
> Postfix sasl authentication I use libldapdb which works flawless, but
> with imapd I get an error 'no mechanisms found'. The relevant part of
> my imapd.conf
>
> ,----[ imapd.conf ]
> | sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
> | ldap_base: ou=my ldap base,dc=tld
> | ldap_authz: cn=mailAdmin,ou=my ldap base,dc=tld
> | # ldap_id: mailAdmin
> | ldap_password: secret
> | ldap_mech: DIGEST-MD5
> | ldap_scope: sub
> | ldap_uri: ldapi://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fldapi
> `----
>

You need to use sasl_ldap_* options where ldap_* are ldapdb options.

Hope this helps.

-- 
Igor
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