[Dovecot] LDAP (AD) auth problem

[Misha Volodko]

If I use dn and dnpass it'd use password lookups mechanism for this
access to password field on LDAP should be granted to some particular
user. Unfortunately, it's impossible. Thats why I want to use
auth_bind way.



On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 17:07 +0200, Misha Volodko wrote:
>> Using tcpdump i found a cause of it, seems dovecot binds to AD server,
>> then drop connection and trying to do search without bind.
>> During sniff I see response to my ldap search - LdapErr:
>> DSID-0C090627, comment: In order to perform this operation a
>> successful bind must be completed on the connection
>
> Dovecot drops the user bind when it does the userdb lookup. If AD
> doesn't support anonymous lookups, you can specify some user with dn and
> dnpass settings and Dovecot will use it for the userdb lookups.
>
>



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