[Dovecot] Concerned about Dovecot's new NTLM code
John Peacock
jpeacock at rowman.com
Mon Sep 27 12:42:52 EEST 2004
Karl Latiss wrote:
> 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.
Yes, but:
1) setting up LDAP from scratch is non-trivial;
2) in a corporate environment, most people are likely to already have an
authentication database (which might be Novell, LDAP, Active Directory, NTLM,
Kerberos, etc.).
John
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