alternative login names

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 14:25 +0100, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> I actually needed a pointer into the right direction and I guess that
> is one.
> I've never used sasl ldapdb though and I have a hard time figuring out
> how and what to do.

I have some examples for using ldapdb @
<http://www.wmmi.net/documents/LDAP103.pdf>

> From the documentation I found it's also not clear to me if a crypted
> userPassword as I use in my LDAP can be used in that setup.

Hmmmm.  I can't recall off the top of my head.  I believe it SHOULD be
possible to do LOGIN/PLAIN auth via ldapdb.

> If I understand correctly all the hard work to match usernames in done
> via some regexp which should be powerful enough to let me search the
> login name in uid and mail attributes?

Yes, the matching regex is key.  And confusing, at first.

> Or did you actually refer to a different mapping in LDAP?
> Is there some sort of HOWTO somewhere or is all the information really
> spread in openldap, sasl and imapd documentation only?

Maybe the above PDF will help?


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