[Dovecot] LDAP and GSSAPI problems

Jason Gunthorpe jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Thu Feb 3 01:54:20 EET 2011


On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 01:17:02AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > Postfix (the other half of my solution -- though the version I am using
> > doesn't do SASL LDAP yet, but 2.9.x does) allows you, in the
> > configuration, to set what environment variables it should not unset and
> > even define new ones (an example -- import_environment =
> > KRB5_KTNAME=/etc/dovecot/krb5.keytab). This may be a good solution for
> > Dovecot specifically for things like this.
> 
> Maybe.. But there haven't really been all that many uses for it.

Windows AD's LDAP server behaves by default in the same way, in that
all LDAP must be authenticated - this makes alot of sense, IMHO. It
would be nice to have LDAP out of the box support kerberos
authentication using the machine principle setup by samba.

Jason


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