[Dovecot] Please help: LDAP configuration _almost_ works.

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Jack McKinney wrote:

> dn: dovecot needs a dn with which to search the database to find the
> user's DN based on their email.

This is done with an anonymous connection,

> 	Now that dovecot knows what the user's DN is, it will make a new
> connection to the LDAP server (this is my understanding of "auth_bind =

It will use the same connection, but bind() anew.

> yes") using "cn=Jack McKinney, ou=users, dc=lorentz, dc=com" and the
> password "test123".  If this LDAP connection authenticates, then the

Does this work? Can you bind as this user?

I mean ldapsearch -D "cn=Jack McKinney, ou=users, dc=lorentz, dc=com" -x 
- -w "test123" ?

> supplied by the user to try and authenticate to LDAP. If it succeeds,
> then the user can access their email.

Yeah, it works in my setup :-)

Did you sniffed the LDAP connection already?

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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