Re: [Dovecot] Active Directory Auth

Hi,

I wrote up something to do AD authentication from a Linux system. 

This is for logging in, but you can probably do what you need for Dovecot.

http://yelof.com/pam-to-active-directory/

Let me know what you think.

                                                                     
           mike

Paolo Basenghi wrote:

Dovecot needs a password DB where to perform authentication and a user DB where to retrieve home directory and uid/gid. With A.D. you can perform only the first: authorization but you should use Kerberos and PAM, not LDAP. Actually, a Microsoft extension to A.D. exists; it add unix style accounting to A.D., but I did not test it (ehi, it's Microsoft stuff! Do you really think it can work? ;-) For the user DB you should use static uid/gid and virtual mailboxes (a single Linux user that own all the mailboxes).

If you are interested, search the list archives to find my post where I rougly explained how to do it. Sorry for my terrible english.

Greets.