[Dovecot] LDAP with Active Directory

[grant beattie]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 02:30:09PM -0400, B Hatoum wrote:

> Hello,
> I have successfully used dovecot 1.0 Beta 9 to do SASL authentication for
> postfix using the unix passwd/shadow files. 
>  
>  I need to authenticate with a windows 2003 server using active directory.
> My system does not support PAM (I'm using slackware) so I cannot take that
> route.  I do not need to use dovecot for POP or IMAP at the present time and
> so I would like to avoid modifying my active directory schema.

some of the systems I inherited also run Slackware, but it's easy to
get PAM support:

	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/pre/library/

in fact, for these particular systems, PAM was a requirement to
support the authentication methods we use. just download and install
the Linux-PAM source.

just curious, if you don't need to use Dovecot for POP or IMAP, what
are you actually using it for? :)

in another setup, Dovecot is authenticating from AD, not via LDAP, but
Samba's winbindd. winbindd provides a PAM module which can be used by
the system for Dovecot auth (and other services).

grant.