Re: [Dovecot] Concerned about Dovecot's new NTLM code

Karl Latiss wrote:

Maybe I'm missing something here, but with LDAP as a backend single sign-on seems to work just fine for Samba (and therefore Windows), email, FTP, you name it. I only have to manage the users in LDAP - no other DB at all.

Yes, but:

1. setting up LDAP from scratch is non-trivial;

2. in a corporate environment, most people are likely to already have an authentication database (which might be Novell, LDAP, Active Directory, NTLM, Kerberos, etc.).

John

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