[Dovecot] Denying authentication

[Simone Caruso]

On 11/01/2011 20:10, Romer Ventura wrote:
>
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> [mailto:dovecot-bounces+rventura=h-st.com at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Simone
> Caruso
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 12:18 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Denying authentication
>
>>                   What I would like to know is if there is any way that
>> I could deny access for users trying to access email via cellphones or
>> email clients outside the company. I can close everything since there
>> are a few users that need to get emails from outside the company via
>> cell phone of email clients.
>>
>>
>>
>>                   I was thinking if there was a way to lets say create
>> a group in AD named: "remote-email" that will allow connection and
>> authentication from any network, any user not in that group will only
>> be able to authenticate if the source is 192.168.xx.xx/24.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is this possible?
>
> Read this:
> http://wiki1.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/AllowNets
>
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> Simone Caruso
> IT Consultant
> p.iva: 03045250838
>
>
> Yeah, but again. There are certain users that will need to access their
> email from outside our local networks. This would work for half of what I
> would like to accomplish, the other half: "allow authentication for remote
> users as long as they belong to certain LDAP group" or something similar is
> what I am more interested on.
>
You can try using two userdb with different LDAP queries for each ldap group(see MultipleDatabases wiki page), but i 
never tried something like this.


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Simone Caruso
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