alternative login names

[Marc Patermann]

Wolfgang,

Wolfgang Rosenauer schrieb (03.02.2013 20:29 Uhr):

> I'm running Cyrus imapd 2.3.x since quite some time for a group of users.
> My setup is LDAP based using saslauthd to pam_ldap currently and works 
> just fine. But now I want to allow access to the mailboxes using the 
> email address as an alternative to the system username.
> 
> I have no real idea where to start how I could achieve that w/o changing 
> the whole architecture of the system.
> Someone got a hint for me what to look at?
I don't know much about pam_ldap, but as you have all the data in LDAP, 
why not switch to auxprop ldapdb and configure your LDAP to map the 
existing logins and mail address to the same object?


Marc