[Dovecot] Concerned about Dovecot's new NTLM code

[Karl Latiss]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but with LDAP as a backend single
sign-on seems to work just fine for Samba (and therefore Windows),
email, FTP, you name it. I only have to manage the users in LDAP - no
other DB at all.

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 18:01, John Peacock wrote:
> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > Perhaps we have different aims - but I had hoped that there was some
> > interest in the corporate mail server space, where proper domain
> > integration is critical, and single-sign on (which is what NTLMSSP
> > provides) is expected.
> 
> I, for one, wouldn't mind moving towards single-signon (we are a corporate 
> environment).  I hate multiple user databases, and in fact replicate our 
> vpopmail database (which is what Dovecot uses for authentication) out of the 
> internal Netware servers, but it means that e-mail has a different password than 
> the Netware login.  I may try to use the eDirectory/PAM support in SuSE 
> Enterprise 9, but I already have to support NTLM in some form internally.
> 
> This is a long winded way of saying that I would be interested in seeing the 
> Dovecot code offer more ways of tying into backend authentication sources and I 
> know from personal experience that Samba is an important part of such an effort...
> 
> John
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