[Dovecot] Using dovecot sasl for authenticating in openldap

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Feb 2 20:18:17 EET 2009


On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 14:50 +0100, Nathan Huesken wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using dovecot imaps and exim, both authenticating using dovecot-sasl. To keep passwords in one place I would like
> to authenticate openldap users over dovecot-sasl.

OK..

> So looking at this page:
> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/security.html
> I figure it could be done using Pass-Through authentication.
> 
> For this, I need to create
> /usr/lib/sasl2/slapd.conf

Now you're talking about using Cyrus SASL, not Dovecot SASL. Dovecot
doesn't use such a file.

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