Authorization with ptloader: Linux and LDAP backend combined

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Wed Jan 13 09:35:54 EST 2010


On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 13:39 +0200, Evgeniy Arbatov wrote:
> Hello,
> I have got one more problem with Cyrus IMAP and SASL/ptloader, that
> does not allow me to be entirely happy with my setup.
> The issue is that I want to be able to store the Cyrus IMAP admin
> credentials locally on the Linux server, while all other users are
> using LDAP backend for login. I thought of using PAM in saslauthd, but
> this does not work, because I also use ptloader on the Cyrus IMAP
> server and hence all the authentication is working well, but the
> authorization fails (because ptloader always tries to query LDAP).

Does this fail because ptloader finds no object in LDAP representing the
admin account?

> Is there a way to specify two different auth/author backends for
> ptloader and SASL?


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