On 12 Jan 2006, at 22:33, Paul Matthews wrote:
Q1. Can dovecot use it's LDAP configuration to get information from
Active Directory? if so can someone show me and example dovecot-ldap.conf
file?
Probably but that's not relevant if you're using WinBind. See below.
Q2. To this me seams like just virtual user scenario, in virtual
users how do you get a home directory for mail to be stored in automatically?
pam_mkhomedir, as you've used below.
Q3. In my /etc/pam.d/dovecot pam module (shown below) it requests
that you make a home directory, when i use this in my sshd pam module and
login i make a home directory, when i do it via squirrel mail it dosn't
make a home directory, why?auth required pam_winbind.so account required pam_winbind.so session optional pam_mkhomedir.so
Interesting. Mine says: auth required /lib/security/pam_winbind.so account required /lib/security/pam_winbind.so session required /lib/security/pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/ skel umask=0022
The paths to the PAM modules should be irrelevant, but I would
perhaps add the skel & umask declarations.
Q4. Here is both my configuration files, can someone tell me what
i'm doing wrong?/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
This is irrelevant if you're using WinBind.
/etc/dovecot.conf ... auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_passdb = pam
Many lines of this .conf file are commented out, and so are
irrelevant. However it looks like you're using a different format of
dovecot.conf than I am. I'm told the current 1.0_alpha5 is more
stable than 0.99.x and it also supports Pam sessions, which you need
for pam_mkhomedir.
My Dovecot.conf says: # /etc/passwd or similar, using getpwnam() # In many systems nowadays this uses Name Service Switch, which is # configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. userdb passwd { }
passdb pam { args = "-session *" }
My nsswitch.conf says: passwd: files winbind shadow: files group: files winbind
hosts: files dns
networks: files dns
services: db files
protocols: db files
rpc: db files
ethers: db files
netmasks: files
netgroup: files
bootparams: files
automount: files
aliases: filesI do not use LDAP at all on my mailserver.
HTH,
Stroller.