Re: [Dovecot] LDAP as password database - some problems / suggestions

Stefan Palme schrieb:

Hi all,

Using dovecot-1.2.6, I use dovecot with an LDAP backend for user authentication. In general this works ok, but I have some issues with this...

In LDAP, I have users like this:

dn:cn=user1,ou=users,dc=kapott,dc=org dn:cn=user2,ou=users,dc=kapott,dc=org

Because the LDAP system is used in a larger environment, it is NOT possible to re-arrange the users like this:

cn=user1,ou=dovecot,ou=users,dc=kapott,dc=org cn=user2,ou=not_dovecot,ou=users,dc=kapott,dc=org

Isn't it possible to just give the each allowed IMAP Users a attribute like imap=1 ?

If you really need to do it with the groups, the SUN DSSE Ldap has features like ROLES or COSes where you can set attributes for an entry based on a internal search.

Regards, Oliver