[Dovecot] Active Directory Auth

[Mike Foley]

Hi,

    I wrote up something to do AD authentication from a Linux system. 
This is for
    logging in, but you can probably do what you need for Dovecot.

    http://yelof.com/pam-to-active-directory/

    Let me know what you think.

                                                                         
               mike


Paolo Basenghi wrote:

> Dovecot needs a password DB where to perform authentication and a user 
> DB where to retrieve home directory and uid/gid.
> With A.D. you can perform only the first: authorization but you should 
> use Kerberos and PAM, not LDAP. Actually, a Microsoft extension to 
> A.D. exists; it add unix style accounting to A.D., but I did not test 
> it (ehi, it's Microsoft stuff! Do you really think it can work?  ;-)
> For the user DB you should use static uid/gid and virtual mailboxes (a 
> single Linux user that own all the mailboxes).
>
> If you are interested, search the list archives to find my post where 
> I rougly explained how to do it.
> Sorry for my terrible english.
>
> Greets.
>