Authorization with ptloader: Linux and LDAP backend combined

[nodens2099]

On 13/01/2010 15:35, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>> 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?
>
>

We use a similar setup here. LDAP authentication with ptloader, and 
sasldb access for admin. PTS is used for user / group lookups. So you 
need to have a match for your admin user in the ldap database, even if 
it has no password and another authentication mean is called upon admin 
login.

Cheers,

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Clément Hermann (nodens)