[Dovecot] Using dovecot sasl for authenticating in openldap

[Nathan Huesken]

Well, I have to admit, I do not know what I am saying.

I wanted to authenticate in openldap using dovecot-sasl. The only useable thing I could find was this document describing pass-through authentication. And it talked about the /usr/lib/sasl2/slapd.conf. It belongs to cyrus sasl? Mmh ...

Does anyboday know if and how openldap authentication using dovecot is possible?

Thanks!
Nathan

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 01:18:17PM -0500, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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.
>