[Dovecot] no password reply

[Andrew Hutchings]

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 11:31 +0200, Marc Baudoin wrote:
> Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> écrit :
> > On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 20:57 +0600, Askar wrote:
> > > "dovecot-auth: ldap(branch): No password in reply"
> > > 
> > > Is this Freebsd error , or active directory is not configured correctly 
> > > or dovecot bug?
> > 
> > It means Dovecot's LDAP support is broken currently in 1.0-tests. I've
> > forgotten my test LDAP server's admin password and couldn't figure out
> > how to change it, so I'm waiting for someone else to fix this :)
> > OpenLDAP is annoying.
> 
> But LDAP is increasingly used to provide a central password
> repository (for e-mail, Web interfaces, etc.).  It is a mandatory
> requirement for servers that use authentication, such as Dovecot.
> 

We find MySQL or pgsql a better central password repository.  I wouldn't
say SQL or LDAP was mandatory, passwd/shadow support maybe.  Everything
else can go through authentication wrappers for most things if a program
doesn't support them, and since Dovecot is pre-alpha I think I does a
bloody good job at authentication with so many systems and schemes.

Regards
Andrew

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