On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 02:30:09PM -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.
some of the systems I inherited also run Slackware, but it's easy to get PAM support:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/pre/library/in fact, for these particular systems, PAM was a requirement to support the authentication methods we use. just download and install the Linux-PAM source.
just curious, if you don't need to use Dovecot for POP or IMAP, what are you actually using it for? :)
in another setup, Dovecot is authenticating from AD, not via LDAP, but Samba's winbindd. winbindd provides a PAM module which can be used by the system for Dovecot auth (and other services).
grant.