alternative login names

[Dan White]

On 02/04/13 09:08 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>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.

It should be possible to continue to use saslauthd for authentication (with
crypted passwords) and then use ldapdb just as a canonicalization plugin.

>> 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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Dan White