[Dovecot] Dovecot and Active Directory Authentication

[Chris Wakelin]

Dave Smith wrote:
> 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.
> 

I have it working with PAM and pam_ldap in 1.0-stable/alpha1, but with
userdb = passwd (we have users in NIS as well as AD). Search the mail
archives for details!

LDAP auth won't work directly as it expects to find a hashed version of
the password.

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

Probably a good idea to upgrade to dovecot-1.0-stable or
dovecot-1.0-alpha1 (0.99.11 is pretty old, even 0.99.14 is pretty well
obsolete).

Best Wishes,
Chris

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