[Dovecot] LDAP.conf filter issue

[Timo Sirainen]

On 5.7.2012, at 16.45, Tony Hlabse wrote:

> We are trying to use the user_filter options to limit authentication to a single user group. The cusotmer has security rules that they want to only have users belonging to a group to have access. Sample we have tried.
> 
> auth_bind = yes
> auth_bind_userdn = EXAMPLE\%n

user_filter is used only for userdb lookup, not for authentication. You could use pass_filter to limit authentication, but with the auth_bind_userdn setting enabled that doesn't work because its whole purpose is to skip the pass_filter.