Hi, I have this working flawlessly, but... I'm running dovecot 1.0alpha1 (in production for 3000 users) on a Solaris 9 system that is a Kerberos client of Active Directory. All authentication to the Sun box uses Kerberos/AD (ssh, imap, ftp, etc). PAM is the controlling agent that talks to AD as a Kerberos client. So, my dovecot config just uses PAM. Life is good.

Jeff Earickson Colby College

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Dave Smith wrote:

Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:00:11 +0100 From: Dave Smith dave@grantsmith.uklinux.net To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Dovecot and Active Directory Authentication

First off, sorry if this has been asked before - I have looked, honest.

Is it possible to get dovecot to authenticate users against active directory, treating the AD as a plain ldap server? I have this working with cyrus saslauthd.

Currentlt I get a long delay (30 seconds or so) then

• BYE Disconnected for inactivity.

All I get in the maillog is

imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity [::ffff:127.0.0.1]

I am using dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 on CentOS 4.

If anybody has got this to work then please let me know - otherwise I will be forced to use Cyrus........

Cheers

Dave Smith