[Dovecot] LDAP with Active Directory

[Anders Karlsson]

Hi.

This looks like the same problem I've sent in a patch for earlier,  
the client that is talking to postfix could be sending the username  
at the same time as the AUTH LOGIN command.

Cheers
Anders

On Jun 16, 2006, at 13:08, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 14:30 -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.
>>
>> Dovecot seems to be communicating with the active directory server,
>> however it is sending an authentication failure to postfix:
>>  postfix/smtpd[24540]: warning: unknown[XXX.XXX.XXX.X]: SASL LOGIN
>> authentication failed: UxxvcmxxQ6
>
> What is the client that tries to authenticate to it here?
>
>> I don't see any messages in the log from dovecot.
>
> Set auth_debug=yes and check again. I'm not sure why Postfix would  
> give
> that weird looking error message..
>