Saslauthd and 2 authentication mechanism

Andrew Morgan morgan at orst.edu
Thu Jun 30 16:19:29 EDT 2005


On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Paul van der Vlis wrote:

> Igor Brezac schreef:
>>
>> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I want to use 2 authentication mechanisms with Saslauthd. When the first
>>> one gives "no", it should try the other one.
>>>
>>> The man-page says: "saslauthd supports one or more 'authentication
>>> mechanisms',
>>
>> This does not say that you can use more than one concurrently.
>>
>> You can use only one at a time.
>
> Are you really sure? This is important for me.
>
> /etc/defaults/saslauthd in Debian says:
>
> # You must specify the authentication mechanisms you wish to use.
> # This defaults to "pam" for PAM support, but may also include
> # "shadow" or "sasldb", like this:
> # MECHANISMS="pam shadow"
>
> I want to use "pam ldap".

As an alternative, if you are already using pam why not use the pam_ldap 
module in your pam config?

 	Andy
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