[Dovecot] LDAP bind questions

[Stuart Henderson]

--On 09 July 2003 18:28 +0300 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 21:53, Jared wrote:
>> Is there any intention to support "authentication binds" so you
>> don't  have to bind as a user with read privileges to everyone's
>> userPassword  attribute? For security purposes I'd like to see this
>> functionality.
>
> I probably have to add support for this some day, but it's kind of
> annoying to implement if I want to do it well. I should use
> non-blocking LDAP connect calls, but last time I tried it got pretty
> ugly and I gave up.

If people really need this now, SASL might be the answer (either via 
PAM or mailfront) since saslauthd/auth_ldap allows authentication binds.