[Dovecot] Dovecot and Active Directory Authentication

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Hi,
   I have this working flawlessly, but...  I'm running dovecot 1.0alpha1
(in production for 3000 users) on a Solaris 9 system that is a Kerberos 
client of Active Directory.  All authentication to the Sun box uses
Kerberos/AD (ssh, imap, ftp, etc).  PAM is the controlling agent that 
talks to AD as a Kerberos client.  So, my dovecot config just uses
PAM.  Life is good.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Dave Smith wrote:

> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:00:11 +0100
> From: Dave Smith <dave at grantsmith.uklinux.net>
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: [Dovecot] Dovecot and Active Directory Authentication
> 
> First off, sorry if this has been asked before - I have looked, honest.
>
> Is it possible to get dovecot to authenticate users against active directory, 
> treating the AD as a plain ldap server? I have this working with cyrus 
> saslauthd.
>
> Currentlt I get a long delay (30 seconds or so) then
> * BYE Disconnected for inactivity.
>
> All I get in the maillog is
>
> imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity [::ffff:127.0.0.1]
>
> I am using dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 on CentOS 4.
>
> If anybody has got this to work then please let me know - otherwise I will be 
> forced to use Cyrus........
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave Smith
>