[Dovecot] Dovecot and MS Active Directory.

[Chris Wakelin]

Sysadmin wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> We are using dovecot right now, but the boss pushes the MS based system
> (Exchange, Sharepoint, Active Directory etc) to use. However, skipping
> the other parts I'd like to keep open source based mail server and  the
> question is -  can the dovecot authenticate against the MS Active
> Directory without any problems?
> 
> 

We do this ourselves using PAM (passdb=pam), pam_ldap and a passwd-file
for the userdb (generated from NIS and really only used to map usernames
to UNIX uids - you could, of course, use "static" instead).

Since we went down this route, Dovecot's own LDAP support has improved,
and it may be possible to miss the PAM/pam_ldap stage (which has the
disadvantage of opening a new LDAP connection to the Active Directory
for each authentication).

It's worth searching the list archives for example configurations for
this (I'm pretty sure I sent ours sometime in the autumn).

Best Wishes,
Chris

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